This Lesser-known National Park Feels 'Extraterrestrial' With Bone-white Sand Dunes and Sky-blue Lagoons — Here’s What It Was Like to Visit Story by Michael Snyder • 1mo ...

THERE’S a little-known beach in Italy that looks like the Sahara Desert. With huge golden sands, dunes and beautiful blue waters, it’s one of the most beautiful places to go on ...

A unique combination of sand and snow transformed ... “a ridge of snowy, undulating dunes” while other ridges are shadowed in soft cornflower blue. “Conifer and cottonwood trees are at ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...

Roughly 90 minutes from both Orlando and Tampa, Streamsong provides a tranquil golf destination with wonderfully unique Coore ...

Sand Mountain blue butterflies live in only one place on Earth — within and near the dunes of “Singing” Sand Mountain in Nevada. But over the past three decades, extensive off-road vehicle use on ...