Long layover? Flight delay? These nine urban hiking trails—from a bamboo forest to a wildlife refuge—are all within 15 miles ...

Revisiting a National Geographic photographer’s strange encounter while searching for the source of the Amazon.

Foods like hot dogs, hamburgers, and potato salad have become menu essentials at Independence Day cookouts across the country ...

The Colombian city’s cultural scene is getting a shake-up, with creative locals whipping up fusion flavours and mixing ...

Just as it turned 100 in 2016, America’s National Park Service (NPS) began to officially recognize the contributions that LGBTQ+ Americans have made to the rich and diverse history of the United ...

Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

Colonizing Indigenous people—and exploiting their land and resources—has a long and brutal history. Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain in 1492. In recent years, the story of this journey ...

From Boston’s North End to San Francisco’s North Beach, these communities are still serving the country's most authentic, ...

Similar to cultures to the south, including the Aztecs, Cahokian burials may have included human sacrifices. Mound 72 at the site holds dozens of bodies, male and female, some of them decapitated.

A passenger train rolls through the unforgiving desert landscape as seen through some beautiful blooming Ocotillo cactuses. Trains are an accessible way to see some of America’s national parks ...

The love songs of these Panamanian frogs is a dinner bell for fringe-lipped bats. But how do they learn which frogs and toads are safe to eat and which are poisonous?

In Ontario’s vineyard Country, orchards, micro-farms and roadside stalls offer a local bounty that talented home cooks ...