On a sunny Tuesday in the San Francisco Bay, the spout of a gray whale emerged from the depths and sent a heart-shaped cloud ...

At the New England Aquarium in Boston, a new “retirement” island is designed to soothe the aches and pains of aging African ...

Sidling up to Germany’s Black Forest and the Rhine-woven French border, this mountain resort is one of UNESCO's Great Spa ...

In the Bahamas, Nassau’s clear blue waters are beautiful to behold, but diving there can be dangerous. Especially during tide changes, "the currents in there rip,” says archaeologist Michael Pateman ...

New research has revealed insight into the evolution of this influential waterway, which may have been created when two ...

Two main routes lead south from the Saharan Atlas across the Algerian desert. Most used at the moment is the Tanezrouft Piste ...

More frequent and intense heatwaves are the future, say experts — but destinations and travellers are adapting fast.

A new study argues the Indus Civilization may have been the most egalitarian society in the ancient world—but scholars are ...

Chess spread quickly through feudal Europe, far from its roots in sixth-century India. Here’s how the game of strategy kept ...

The crocodiles that reside in Banco Chinchorro, Mexico were originally thought to be American crocodiles. However, a study published in June 2025 identified them as a unique, unnamed new species, ...

Cyrus went down in history as one of the most benevolent conquerors of all time, allowing his subjects to live—and worship—as they pleased. Engraving of Cyrus the Great. Cyrus governed with singular ...

Lit by silk lanterns and lined with timber-framed shophouses, Hoi An is the jewel of Vietnam’s central coast — but this ...