Chocolate-box buildings with brimming flower boxes. An imposing fortress, encircled by cannons. Soaring city walls, cobbled squares, horse-and-carriage rides. Where in the world are you? You’d ...

Go medieval inside the Conciergerie, the notorious prison where Marie Antoinette and so many other notables were held (and ...

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National Geographic’s Crash Course on the American Revolution is your six-part email series on how the 13 Colonies broke free from Great Britain and established the United States. From the escalating ...

Lit by silk lanterns and lined with timber-framed shophouses, Hoi An is the jewel of Vietnam’s central coast — but this historic city also has a contemporary side, one where abstract artists and ...

Cream teas, whitewashed fishing villages, surfboards, sandcastles, a generous slice of Celtic culture… You’d be churlish to deny Cornwall’s unique appeal. After all, our southwestern-most county has a ...

Professor Suzannah Lipscomb leads a bold investigation into the mysterious deaths of Cleopatra, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and Tutankhamun. Using digital autopsies, original sources and ...

Many members of the animal kingdom can detect the subtle undulations of Earth’s magnetic field. Relying on a hidden ...

National Geographic photographer Greg Kahn set out with his family to uncover what makes Chattanooga, known as Tennessee's ...

From lobster boats to shifting dunes and dark night skies, Prince Edward Island offers a slower coastal experience. A wooden boardwalk lined with blooming lupins leads the way to the historic, ...

National Geographic Explorer and photographer Steve Winter is no stranger to photographing big cats. In India’s Gir Wildlife Sanctuary, he spent years getting eye-catching close-ups.

The Solenostomus snuffleupagus are about 4–5 centimeters or the size of a golf tee. Kerryn Parkinson, Australian Museum The Snuffleupagus ghost pipefish is covered in hair-like filaments that float ...