I love a good outdoor adventure-but sometimes the most popular U.S. spots can feel more like a crowded street scene than a wilderness escape. If you’re hoping to run into fewer folks on your next ...

With five eagerly awaited hotel grand openings and redesigns coming later this year, all paths and gondolas are leading to Venice. These storied, palatial properties are living testaments to La ...

London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary, we travel back through its history to select 40 queer cinema classics that you might not have seen.

The researchers were hoping to understand whether our own species' long documented appreciation (bordering on obsession) with crystals ...

Tickets for Sequoia National Park's Crystal Cave 2026 season go on sale March 16. The 2025 season sold out quickly.

That's Crystal Cave, a longtime favorite of people who celebrate subterranea. Crystal Cave is the second biggest of the 275 "known" caves in Sequoia National Park, it boasts "delicate crystal ...

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Our last three installments of Colored Stones Unearthed have focused on geological processes that form gemstones naturally in the earth. We detailed gemstones formed in magmatic, metamorphic, and ...

This year at the Tucson gem shows, you can see everything from a complete woolly rhino fossil, to large silver specimens on exhibit for the first time since 1947, to dazzling displays of red, white ...

Every thrifty crafter knows that the Dollar Tree craft aisle (and many other sections of the store, too) is full of affordable materials that make the cutest DIYs. In this case, we're focusing on ...