When you see a town like Tightwad, Missouri, you have to wonder how that ever came about. This small town got its name from an incident in which a store owner cheated a postal worker by charging him an extra fifty cents...

I live in a house that is over 100 years old. That's pretty old by US standards, but can you imagine living in a city that is 12,000 years old? That would be Damascus, Syria, with a population of four million people. W...