Brenda Pawl finds her peace beneath the craggy branches of a near 100-year-old catalpa tree in her side yard, near a busy intersection in Northwest Grand Rapids. Nearly every day, from snowmelt to ...

What once was used to imprison a mythological Greek monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man is now more commonly used as a means for quiet meditation. The life of a labyrinth, indeed, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Ledsom is a France-based contributor who covers travel. Labyrinths have been used for the past 2,000 years–by the Romans and ...

Unnan isn’t a big town. Located in the mountains of Shimane Prefecture, the rural community only has a population of about 35,000 people. And yet, there’s a place in Unnan that attracts roughly 40,000 ...

When you ask a person about their first labyrinth, their speech slows down, voices get quieter. It’s not dissimilar to the way walking through a labyrinth disrupts pace: it forces deceleration, and ...