Apparently Pope Francis’s popularity is fueling a tourist boom at the Vatican; almost 3 times as many tourists in his first 9-1/2 months as in all of the previous year, according to the online business journal Quartz. MORE
Desert View Watchtower, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
A visit to the Desert View Watchtower on the eastern portion of the Grand Canyon’s South Rim. Constructed in the 1930s, it offers magnificent canyon views and a tie to the Native American history of the Canyon.
It’s hard to imagine the Vatican with 3x as many people as when I last visited it.
It would make sardines in a can seem uncrowded.