Adventure Travel
When you think of taking a vacation do you dream of relaxing on a beach? Or does your mind turn to something a little wilder -- an African safari or agritoursim chores?
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10 Alternatives to the Las Vegas Vacation
10 Tiny Towns with Big Tourism Dreams
Utah's Fabled Great Salt Lake Is Shrinking
10 Ways to Avoid Being a Beach Bummer
How Nude Beaches Work
California and Marijuana Tourism: What You Need to Know
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Family Vacations in Alaska
10 Guaranteed Ways to Ruin a Family Reunion
How to Plan a Family Reunion
How to Create a Family Reunion Web Site
Check Out 7 of the Most Beautiful Libraries in the World
Have You Ridden Any of the 10 Tallest Ferris Wheels in the World?
The Museum of Failure Celebrates Flops and Fiascoes
This Land Was Their Land: The Growing Interest in Tribal National Parks
$1,500 Today Buys a Yellowstone Pass for 2172
Who's Behind the Mysterious Mojave Desert Megaphone?
Flower-covered Floats Blossom at the Annual Rose Parade
Spain's La Tomatina: The World's Biggest Food Fight
Cadillac Ranch: Where the Cars Are the Canvas
5 Things to Know Before You Try the Driving Experience of a Lifetime
Tail of the Dragon, Plus 4 Other Roads That Are Wicked-fun to Drive
10 Great Motorcycle Trips
10 Foods to Buy by the Side of the Road
5 Most Dangerous Roads in the World
Everything I Need to Know I Learned ... Caribou Tracking
10 Things Alaska and Alabama have in Common
10 Must-haves for a Family-friendly Resort
Could Saudi Arabia's The Rig Be the Next Big Thing in Extreme Tourism?
Slide Down Daredevil's Peak
All Aboard for Our Roller Coaster Quiz!
Beyond the Appalachian: Meet All 11 of America's National Scenic Trails
A Guide to Hiking at Yosemite National Park
A Guide to Hiking Mount Whitney
10 RV Travel Tips for Retirees
How to Age-proof Your RV
How to Find a Retiree Travel Club
10 Tips to Pack Like a Pilot
Why People Are Nuts for Buc-ee's
Traveling This Summer? 12 Tips to Navigate Flight Cancellations
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From dining in the gondola of a hot air balloon to eating under the sea, here are five unique dining experiences you may not believe, but may want to try.
Jacob's Ladder on St. Helena Island is 699 steps of straight-up climbing, so difficult that you get a certificate if you make it to the top.
The multi-colored bands of The Wave are considered one of the most photogenic — and photographed — natural wonders in North America, but you need a permit to visit. Oh, and water!
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Boiling Lake in Dominica is the second-largest boiling lake in the world. The trek to get there is arduous and long, but it's well worth the effort.
'Star Wars' super fans can now be part of their own epic voyage with Rey and Kylo Ren. How? Just board the Halcyon Starcruiser into the Star Wars galaxy.
In a tale so crazy it's true, Pitcairn Island is home to just 50 people, descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers, who hid there more than 200 years ago. And the island is now looking for more residents.
Though they are far too hot to bathe in, with temps over 200 degrees Fahrenheit, the seven hells of Beppu are renowned for their colors — and for the crocs that inhabit one of them.
By Katie Carman
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Whether to deepen faith or just to have some time for personal reflection, thousands of people walk, ride or bike el Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrim's route, every year. Want to join them?
Made of glass, the harrowing Coiling Dragon Cliff Skywalk will test the mettle of anyone brave enough to challenge its heights.
By Carrie Tatro
All roads on the Pan American Highway end in the Darién Gap, a dense jungle that separates Panama and Colombia. What makes trekking this area so dangerous?
The Republic of Nirivia, an imaginary micronation comprising a group of islands in Lake Superior, was founded in the mid-1970s mostly in jest, by a small group of Canadians.
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Some call it an artists colony, others a squatters' paradise. Either way, it attracts lots of visitors, billing itself as the last free place in America. So, what's it really like?
By Dave Roos
If light pollution has obscured the night sky over your head, check out one of 178 designated International Dark Sky Places in 21 countries on six continents around the world.
It's located in the Pacific and part of the Northern Mariana Islands, and played a major role in WWII. Here are seven things you need to know about stunning Saipan.
By Suzie Dundas
Scattered all over the globe in oceans, lakes and seas, are fascinating underwater ruins that once thrummed with the daily lives of the people who inhabited them. So how did they end up underwater?
By Mark Mancini
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One of the largest caves on the planet, Hang Sơn Đoòng houses a forested space called "Watch Out for Dinosaurs" because of its primordial appearance.
By Mark Mancini
According to an 1885 pamphlet, a man named Thomas J. Beale buried a treasure somewhere in Virginia, and left behind what appeared to be coded messages about its location. But was it all just a hoax?
Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only public diamond mining site in the U.S. Thousands of people have dug up their own gems over the years. Some even struck it rich.
Here's an Australian town where you can eat, sleep and play, all below the surface. Not surprisingly, it's starred in many movies too.
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The Happiness Museum in Copenhagen explores happiness across the globe, including how it varies across regions, and why some countries, such as Denmark, are happier than others.
President Lyndon Johnson signed the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act into law in 1968 to protect U.S. rivers for future generations. Here are seven fabulous rivers you should check out.
By Katie Carman
Some folks love stargazing so much, they're willing to build their lives around it. Welcome to Deerlick Astronomy Village, where you can live the astronomical life full-time — or just visit for a dark sky party.
The taiga biome stretches from Alaska to Mongolia, and it's super-cold. You can totally live here, though not too many people do.
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Lake Baikal is a massive, ancient lake in the mountainous Russian region of Siberia. It's home to nearly 4,000 different species, earning it the nickname the 'Galapagos of Russia.'
A reclusive millionaire hid a treasure somewhere in the Rocky Mountains between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Canadian border in 2010. Some lucky hunter finally found it.