A new trail in this southern Arizona city plots the most visitor-friendly astronomy stops—and there are plenty to choose from ...

A season on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail—stretching from the Adirondacks to northern Maine—reveals fresh possibilities for ...

A new study based on two decades of data shows what happens in an ocean ecosystem without great white sharks. Great white ...

The eastern U.S. is about to be inundated with trillions of Brood XIV periodical cicadas—which were first documented by the ...

Head to the country's storied west coast, the historic seat of the powerful Clan Campbell, for smoke-laced whiskies, ...

Watch nutrients flow through an underground circulatory system that connects fungi and plants. A new study shows how these ...

Nova Scotia’s cultural landscape is as diverse as its coastline, shaped by Mi'kmaq, French Acadian and African Nova Scotian communities. These coastal destinations, set along wave-worn cliffs and in ...

As the famed North American road gears up to celebrate its centenary, head to Arizona; home to the longest remaining stretch of the original Route 66.

This story appears in the April 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... William Lange stands over a blown-up sonar survey map of the Titanic site—a meticulously stitched-together mosaic ...