Santa Cruz Island isn’t easy to get to but the hearty travelers who make it are rewarded with a distinctive landscape off the ...

The Dome of the Rock, an architectural masterpiece and Islam’s third most sacred site, is revealing its secrets to scholars who were granted groundbreaking access.

Tucked deep into Cappadocia’s iconic rock formations is a cave hotel unlike anything you’ve ever seen. It’s ancient on the outside but full-on luxury inside—with spa baths, stone-carved ...

Inside the Deep Caves Carved by Lava. ... Elsewhere a thin layer of gypsum colors the walls a bright white, and mats of rock-eating bacteria excrete blue-green splotches of microbial poop.

Hurricane Helene destroyed US 64/74A near Chimney Rock State Park, Bat Cave, Lake Lure and Hickory Nut Gorge. NCDOT paved highway for local traffic only.

Hurricane Helene destroyed US 64/74A near Chimney Rock State Park, Bat Cave, Lake Lure and Hickory Nut Gorge. NCDOT paved highway for local traffic only.

And scholars now talk excitedly about the prospect of analyzing cave paintings in Africa. “99.9 percent of rock art is undated,” says Smith, citing, as an example, ocher representations of ...

Ever since Ecuador’s most notorious gang leader vanished from his prison cell in January 2024, the mystery of his whereabouts ...

2. Jata Shankar Caves and Temple. Jata Shankar Caves and Temple which lie just a short distance away from Pachmarhi are other sites that no lover of history can afford to miss visiting.

When owner John Resnick and executive chef Eric Bost opened their fine-dining restaurant Lilo in Carlsbad on April 17, they explained that its name — pronounced “LIE-low” — referred to the rekindling ...

OAK GROVE, Ala.—A coal miner named Jose Antonio M. Lara died early Wednesday morning following a rock collapse inside the Oak Grove mine, a facility in Jefferson County, just southwest of ...