Mill Valley first-graders and best friends June Campbell and Poppy Morton were in their matching sparkly dresses when they walked into a giant helium sphere covered in spikes with charcoal on the tips ...

The Balloon Museum's new exhibition at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts is a playful collection of larger-than-life ...

They were, that is, like air. Morrow, 29, lives in a small apartment in Houston, and makes his living as a wedding videographer. But his true passion, passed down from his parents, is balloons.

In the latter half of the 19th century, panoramic, or “bird’s-eye view,” city maps became a staple of commercial art. New Orleans ... these panoramic maps — "balloon maps." ...