Exploring Guatemala’s Mayan Ruins
You can walk among the remnants of a Mayan empire in Guatemala’s Tikal National Park. Here, in the midst of 142,000 acres of a lush...
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Behold the Marble Caves of Patagonia
The marble caves along General Carrera Lake in Patagonia, Chile, are over 6,000 years old. The smooth intricate shapes inside of the...
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The Alien Beauty of Socotra Island
The remote island of Socotra looks like a landscape out of a sci-fi film. Over millions of years, the isolated island in the Arabian...
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Braving the Waters of Bimini with Shark Girl
As long as she can remember, Jillian Morris has loved sharks. To get closer to them, she moved to the tiny island of Bimini in the B...
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Inside Italy’s Handmade Amusement Park
In a forest in Northern Italy, a man known simply as Bruno has spent nearly a lifetime building an amusement park by hand. Bruno, wh...
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Lush Greenery is Reclaiming this Abandoned Chinese Oasis
In an archipelago just off the east coast of China, sits an abandoned fishing village. All but a few residents abandoned Shengshan I...
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The Valley Where Bridges Breathe
In a remote village of northeastern India, locals have been “growing” bridges from living trees for hundreds of years. Y...
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I Live in an Airplane
Bruce Campbell lives in an airplane. Yes, an actual jet. The Portland-based aeronautics enthusiast makes his home in a converted Boe...
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Strapped to a Bedsheet with Strings: Life at 18,000 Feet
Gavin McClurg has paraglided in the Himalayas, the Alps, and beyond, but nothing compares to “enjoying the freedom of flight&#...
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What It Feels Like to Sleep on the Side of a Mountain
What is it like to sleep on the side of a cliff in nothing but a hanging tent and sleeping bag? Mountaineer Mark Synnott says itR...