Picture-perfect Los Cabos offers a desert-meets-sea aesthetic, with gorgeous burnt orange rock formations that tumble down to meet the wide open Pacific. Los Cabos is a natural stunner, but it also happens […]
The best beaches in Wisconsin: Great Lakes and great beaches
Nearly half of Wisconsin’s borders bump up against lakes. And where there are lakes, you can expect beaches. These aren’t any old lakes, mind you: they’re two of the biggest […]
The best Vienna day trips for fairytale scenery and stunning centuries-old architecture
The once hallowed seat of the Habsburg Empire, Vienna spoils travelers rotten with baroque palaces, fabled coffee houses and plenty of cultural pizzazz. But Austria‘s stirring, majestic capital also makes a great […]
Top 13 must-see natural wonders in Indonesia
As the largest archipelagic country in the world, majestic Indonesia showcases a wealth of jaw-dropping natural wonders across its 17,000-or-so islands. From leviathan volcanoes and lakes that hang uniquely above […]
I’m a Yellowstone guide — here’s what you need to know if you plan on visiting in 2022
For the better half of three decades, I have been blessed with the opportunity to work and play in Yellowstone National Park, the first national park of the United States […]
This is your brain on Antarctica: penguins, icebergs, and a lifetime supply of awe
Editor-at-large Sebastian Modak returned from Antarctica as a changed person – and it turns out science can explain why. Something funny happened whenever I spotted a whale in Antarctica. It […]
Take Amtrak to these 10 incredible US national parks
More than a century ago, when the first US national parks were formed, most visitors didn’t arrive by car or in RVs, but on trains. Automobiles were still prohibitively expensive, […]
Thousands of Sandhill cranes are flocking to this spot Nebraska. Here’s why and how to see it
Every spring the Platte River in Nebraska is transformed by one of the world’s most amazing natural avian spectacles. Thousands of migrating Sandhill cranes make this area their temporary home […]
The best parks in El Paso offer plenty of adventure
El Pasoans do not have to travel far to get to the great outdoors: their city is filled with parks that provide plenty of opportunities to soak up the warm […]
Is it sustainable to visit Antarctica?
The Antarctic is one of the last undisturbed places on the planet. Human beings have only been traversing this isolated landscape for a mere 200 years since it was discovered […]