On a rail journey through Switzerland’s Engadine Alps, dramatic Alpine wonders unfold at every turn, with glaciers carving ...

Home to one of the world's greatest salmon migrations, Campbell River lives up to its title as the 'Salmon Capital of the ...

For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an ...

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These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...

Enduring architecture and monumental landmarks meet innovative museums and forward-thinking gastronomy in Kaunas, a ...

From diving off cliffs to starving for months, emperor penguins are continuing to surprise scientists with their ability to adapt to one of the world’s most extreme environments.

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

A season on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail—stretching from the Adirondacks to northern Maine—reveals fresh possibilities for ...

Relics of war still linger in this German city but the Saxon capital is defined by a defiant spirit of renewal, with a thriving cultural scene and cutting-edge nightlife.

This story appears in the April 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The wreck sleeps in darkness, a puzzlement of corroded steel strewn across a thousand acres of the North Atlantic seabed.

This story appears in the April 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The purpose of cities is to bring people together. In the 20th century, we blew them apart. One day last year ...