A crinkled $5 bill punched my ticket into Winnipeg. I’d dug it out of my passport holder, where I keep leftover cash from international trips in a zipped compartment, just before the bus arrived.

The United States is packed with astronomical observatories — located on high mountain tops or splayed across a desolate desert. Beyond their beautiful terrestrial settings, many of these ...

Much like rare cloud formations, these rocks, stacks, pillars, caves, cliffs, massifs, volcanic plugs, karsts, arches, hoodoos, and concretions illustrate the tremendous diversity present in all Earth ...

If you ever decide to visit Russia, you’ll likely be inclined to visit the well-known urban hubs, such as St. Petersburg and Moscow. And while these cities will definitely give you a large sampling of ...

What makes a town “the coolest”? In the end, it’s the same as what makes travel the coolest: the people. And yet there seem to be a few common patterns that attract cool people to certain areas, or ...

We often find ourselves marveling at the largest geological features on Earth, from the peaks of Mount Everest and K2 to the depths of the Mariana Trench. But humankind has left its own forms of ...

Located near the Wembley Stadium in Greater London, the Golden Public Toilet was designed in 2013 by the Gort Scott architecture and urban design practice. The uniquely geometric building sits within ...

As you might expect, getting to a tiny town deep inside an Alaskan national park is no small feat. Travelers who want to visit McCarthy, Alaska, have just one road to choose from for driving into town ...

Some novels are inextricably linked to their settings. In many cases, the location feels like a character in itself, a living and breathing protagonist whose interests are intertwined with its human ...

In most places, getting into the wilderness means driving to a trailhead, strapping on hiking boots, and following a map. But in Colorado, it can mean something else entirely: flagging down a train, ...

Maybe their hearts were in the right place. Maybe not. Either way, these are solid contenders for the title of “worst attempts at helping others since colonialism.” 1. One million t-shirts for Africa ...

Not all cultures believe in burying the dead in the ground. Here are 10 unique ceremonies from around the world. THE MODERN DICTIONARY defines the word ‘burial’ as placing a body in the ground. But ...