From Sacred Hawaiian Ritual to Global Obsession: The Full Story of Surfing
Long before surfing became a billion-dollar industry, an Olympic sport, and a bucket-list vacation activity, it was something closer to…
Long before surfing became a billion-dollar industry, an Olympic sport, and a bucket-list vacation activity, it was something closer to…
Costa Rica occupies a sliver of land between Nicaragua and Panama, barely the size of West Virginia, with coastlines on…
It started, as these things so often do now, with someone just scrolling through satellite imagery. Julie Fraser, a tourist…
September 27, 2026 Every year, by this time in September, people in the United States and across the Caribbean are…
At the western end of the spectacular Gower Peninsula in South Wales, a remarkable rocky headland rises from the sea. …
A quarter of the Netherlands sits below sea level. Without an elaborate, centuries-old system of dikes, pumps, and barriers, large…
There are mountain towns that are beautiful. There are mountain towns that are historic. And then there is Telluride. Tucked…
Hurricane Polo exploded from a tropical depression into one of the most powerful storms ever observed in the eastern Pacific,…
There is a recorded shark-bite case that seems almost tailor-made to become an internet legend. It involves Finland – a…
Every other continent on Earth had been walked, settled, or at least glimpsed by humans for thousands of years before…
For decades, Santiago de Chile carried a reputation unlike almost anywhere else in Latin America: orderly, prosperous, and unusually safe.…
William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” gave the world one of its most enduring, bleakest assumptions: strand a group of…
International travel is far more common in some countries than others. In Sweden and the Netherlands, virtually every adult surveyed…
SOFIA, Bulgaria – A night in the forest outside Bulgaria’s capital took a frightening turn this weekend when two brown…
In the remote waters of the South Pacific, scientists have discovered an extraordinary gathering of enormous tiger sharks. But the…
For years, July and August defined the European luxury travel season. Now, wealthy travelers are increasingly choosing September, October and…
Sydney, Australia – September 2026 It seems we don’t need to wait until December anymore. In Sydney, the beach season…
A small, spotted feline from the Andes is forcing scientists to redraw the evolutionary map of South America’s tiger cats.…
A man died after being attacked by a shark while swimming off Sorrento Beach in Perth, Western Australia, on the…
Two glamorous coastal cities. Two international beach playgrounds bracketing the Atlantic. Two skylines full of glass towers a short walk…