San Diego stands out as one of the happiest places to live, with sunny year-round weather, expansive coastlines, locally ...

Opalescent baby squid have "midwives" to bring them into the world. Squid eggs wait in gelatinous orbs to hatch. Capitella ...

Rising dramatically from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, massive, sheer Percé Rock towers off the tip of Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula like a ship at sea. This rugged, windswept region spans 11,714 square ...

A sun-swept corner of the Painted Desert draws more than 600,000 visitors each year. While most come to see one of the world's largest concentrations of brilliantly colored petrified wood, many ...

One of the world’s oldest national parks, Mount Rainier became part of the federal system in 1899, shortly after its last eruption. Park status was the culmination of a long campaign by John ...

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Under a swath of Kentucky hills and hollows is a limestone labyrinth that became the heartland of a national park. The surface of Mammoth Cave National Park encompasses about 80 square miles.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., calls the Great Bear Rainforest "the planet's last large expanse of coastal temperate rain forest." Stretching for more than 250 miles along the coast of British Columbia ...

It's easy to picture what the Ojibwa saw in the 1400s when they first traveled in birchbark canoes to what is now Ontario's Quetico Provincial Park. Little here has changed since then and, as part ...

If you can’t comfortably stand on one leg for 10 seconds, your body may be trying to tell you something. “Being able to stand ...

Part sport, part pilgrimage, running vacations can reshape how you experience a place—with fresh air, local flavor, and a ...

National Geographic photographer Keith Ladzinski shares the wins that come from exploring activities, arts and culture beyond ...