Before 9/11, there was a 5-acre public plaza called the Austin J. Tobin Public Plaza at the center of the World Trade Center complex. The centerpiece of the plaza was a round metal sculpture within a ...

A trip to the Official Center of the World is, well, trippy if not intriguing. But it’s well worth a sidebar stop if you’re cruising Interstate 8 a few miles from the California-Arizona border and ...

On a hot day in Ghana, a visit to the spot where 0 degrees longitude meets the Equator. By Emefa Addo Agawu I slept poorly the night before we went to the center of the world. Three a.m. found me wide ...

Whether you grow up in Bilbao, Beijing or Bombay, everyone has a New York in their heads, even if they have never been there -- which is why the destruction of the twin towers had such an impact. — ...

The question of who exactly should be responsible for the rebuilding effort was hotly contested, as Silverstein acknowledges in his book and as author Elizabeth Greenspan documents at length in her ...