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Swim through seagrass meadows, explore ancient history and observe dugongs among coral reefs — an awe-inspiring world beneath ...

Creation legends and folk tales swirl like snow and leaves across the protected landscapes of Japan. This selection of four ...

Adventure doesn’t stop after dark in Scotland, from twilight kayaking along the River Tay to pitch-black bungee jumps in the Highlands.

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Pantelleria’s extreme conditions have shaped its centuries-old way of growing grapes—a method that is recognized by UNESCO.

Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...

15 min read This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... of Yakutiya’s Ust-Yanskiy District, which covers a swath of tundra three times the size of Switzerland ...

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts goes through a journey of self discover and healing while study sunken enslavement ...

Any false move could have blown his cover, putting his mission ... photograph by Annie Griffiths, National Geographic “There is a valley in the hills of Jebel Shera named Wadi Musa,”he ...

“Now, you can say he walks on water and nobody can do that ... This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.