National Geographic’s latest travel stories about Finland. Photograph by Look Foto, Aurora. Latest Stories. 5 alternative ...

Paddle the vast network of water routes in complete isolation, camp at a primitive site, hike the wilderness trails, and sit ...

Whether you dream of mixing techno in Germany or learning tango in Argentina, these trips bring you closer to the world’s most iconic music scenes.

Elite Exped’s cofounder Mingma Gyabu Sherpa, known in the mountains as Mingma David, holds out hope for Purja, citing that ...

This month brings an exceptional lineup of celestial events, with rare alignments, brilliant meteors, and dramatic eclipses ...

A newly excavated megalithic container holding skeletal remains in Laos may help finally solve the mystery of the so-called ...

Telluride transforms from a ski town in winter to a hiking paradise in summer, with a wide variety of scenic and easily ...

Famed for its excellent fossil-hunting beaches, this Georgian town on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast offers plenty of seaside ...

After a fragment was found in 1943 and dated to 500 B.C., the Nok terra-cotta sculptures shook up the Eurocentric academic ...

From its abolitionist history to its hip vintage shops and leafy trails, Oberlin is a jewel of a town within easy reach of ...

From vintage wine to restored frescoes, National Geographic gained access to thousands of fragile artifacts that capture the ...

Cicadas belong to the Cicadoidea superfamily. They have distinct physical features, including stout bodies, broad heads, clear-membraned wings, and large compound eyes. More than 3,000 species fall ...