Home to over 40 free museums, parks and attractions, North Carolina's capital city has much to offer inquisitive visitors — ...

Travellers to this remote South Atlantic island are rewarded with rugged hiking trails, underwater adventures and the chance ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

Thermal baths and Regency heritage have put this Somerset city firmly on the travel map — and this year the spotlight will be on former resident and literary great Jane Austen, in celebration of the ...

Above the Arctic Circle, this lively resort encapsulates the wild heart of Finnish Lapland — and hits its stride in winter, ...

U.S. and Japanese forces fought over the Aleutian Islands during World War II. Relics of this conflict can still be found on seafloor today, and the Indigenous people who used to call the islands home ...

Normal sledding pace is less than five miles an hour. When Jesper crashed, they were a little more than halfway through the ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... fate emerged when curators backlit this 16th-century map of what is now coastal North Carolina and discovered a ...

Eugene Scheel, a longtime local author, historian and mapmaker, was the man of the hour as more than 100 people gathered Jan.

But it was an intuition with a long history. It went back at least to ... and emotional case for creating the world’s first national parks by claiming that nature had healing powers.

President-elect Donald Trump’s demand that Gulf of Mexico get a new, more American has sparked a feverish debate over who ...