For centuries, Panama has been a crossroads between worlds. The canal may have put it on the global map, but its greatest ...

From lightweight trail shoes to hard-wearing Gore-Tex designs, these are the hiking shoes to pack for summer adventures.

For the August 12 eclipse, Reuben Wu spent days scouting Spain and setting up multiple cameras to document a spectacle that ...

Paleontologists are resurrecting a famous Egyptian fossil site after a World War II air raid obliterated its most spectacular ...

Hugging the Potomac from D.C. to the Appalachian foothills, the C&O Canal is best experienced by bicycle and capped off with ...

A new generation of small-scale food producers is bringing life back to Capraia, a remote island off the Tuscan coast where ...

Cajon Pass is more than a busy mountain gateway. Its complex geology could help reshape the next major earthquake’s reach and intensity.

National Geographic photographers were stationed from Iceland to Spain to document one of the year’s most anticipated celestial events.

Blending urban exploration with outdoor adventure, Seattle invites families to experience its waterways, neighborhoods, and ...

A writer traveling on a four-day trip aboard The Canadian finds himself going back to a less-complicated time—with 1950s ...

Eight years ago, photographer Pete McBride almost lost his Colorado home to a wildfire. This summer, he heads back to the ...

The Danube River is now so low that one ship lies almost entirely on dry land, beached in sand—a haunting sign of our climate future.