28 Amazing Nature Photos Explained: Migaloo, Bismuth, Draco and More
Nature keeps surprising us: fish that glide over the sea, a whale as white as snow, a lizard with wings made from its ribs and metal that gr...
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Sand Sculptures: Dragon Dwellers, Dream Catcher and the Old Woman in a Shoe
A dragon with a whole town on its back, an elephant lifting its trunk, a nursery-rhyme shoe big enough to live in: these sand sculptures wer...
Cabo Polonio, Uruguay: Dune Village, Lighthouse and Sea Lions
Cabo Polonio is a tiny fishing village on a rocky point of Uruguay’s Atlantic coast, cut off from the road by kilometres of sand dunes. The...
Medieval Towns of the World: Ten Historic Towns from Prague to Mystras
Walled hill towns, island castles and cities of canals: the best medieval towns still let you walk streets laid out five, eight or even elev...
Elora Hardy’s IBUKU: Bamboo Houses and Sharma Springs in Bali
Elora Hardy's company IBUKU builds houses, schools and hotels in Bali almost entirely from bamboo, and the results look like nothing els...
Duck Lanes on London Canal Towpaths: The Share the Space Campaign
In spring 2015, walkers on canal towpaths in London, Birmingham and Manchester found something new underfoot: a painted white line and a st...
Ecocapsule: The Slovak Wind and Solar Micro-Home for Off-Grid Living
The Ecocapsule is an egg-shaped micro-home from Bratislava, Slovakia, that carries its own power plant: a 750-watt wind turbine on a telesco...
Manta Resort Underwater Room: A Night Below the Sea off Pemba Island
About 250 metres off the coast of Pemba Island, in Tanzania’s Zanzibar Archipelago, a small floating house sits over the reef. Its bedroom h...
19 Remarkable Places: From the Tsingy of Madagascar to Horseshoe Bend
A cliff-built fortress in the Dordogne, a village wedged between granite boulders in Portugal, a turquoise crater lake on a Kamchatka volca...
29 DIY Backyard Ideas for Summer: Outdoor Cinema, Fire Pits and Hammocks
Summer holidays do not always mean a plane ticket. With floor cushions, a few pallets, an old bunk bed or a bag of sand, a back garden can ...
29 Otherworldly Places on Earth That Look Like Another Planet
Rainbow-coloured hot springs, forests of stone pillars, pink lakes, burning craters and caves big enough to hold a city block: some places o...
Ten Amazing Caves: Sơn Đoòng, Waitomo, Melissani, Fingal’s Cave and More
Some of the most spectacular places on Earth are underground: a jungle growing inside the world’s largest cave passage, a lake lit by the n...
Xcaret Park, Mexico: Underground Rivers, Maya Ruins and the Evening Show
Xcaret is a large eco-archaeological theme park on Mexico's Caribbean coast, where you can float through underground rivers, swim in cen...
Wildlife Crossings: How Green Bridges and Tunnels Help Animals Cross Roads
A wildlife crossing is a bridge, tunnel or culvert built so animals can cross a road without stepping onto it. From the green overpasses of ...
10 Beautiful Beaches: Seychelles, Crete, Sicily, Hawaii and Beyond
Granite boulders in the Seychelles, a freshwater lake of pure white sand in Australia, the pink-tinted shallows of Crete and a staircase of ...
Atrani, Amalfi Coast: Italy’s Smallest Town, History, Beach and Churches
Atrani is the smallest municipality in Italy: just 12 hectares of tall white houses, stepped lanes and a single sea-facing piazza squeezed ...
FollowMeTo India: Murad Osmann at the Taj Mahal and Hawa Mahal
Nataly’s hand reaches back, a bright dress catches the light, and the Taj Mahal rises ahead. In 2015 the Russian photographer Murad Osmann ...
Top 10 Paragliding Sites: Alps, Ölüdeniz, Danyang, Queenstown and More
Paragliding turns a landscape into a map you can float across. From a launch high on a mountainside, a valley shows its whole shape, a lake...
Chania Old Town, Crete: Venetian Harbour, Historic Quarters and Kydonia
Chania, on the north-west coast of Crete, has one of the loveliest old towns in Hellas: a crescent of Venetian harbour front, a lighthouse a...
Go! World Map by Bold Tuesday: A Peel-Off Record of Your Travels
Bold Tuesday’s Go! World map starts as a solid black poster with the outlines of every country cut into its surface. Each time you visit so...
Damnoen Saduak and Amphawa: Thailand's Floating Markets Guide
At Damnoen Saduak, about 100 kilometres southwest of Bangkok, the shop comes to you. Traders in straw hats paddle small wooden boats piled w...
Huizhou's Green River: The Duckweed Carpet on a Guangdong City River
In spring 2015, photographs from Huizhou in China's Guangdong province showed a city river that looked like a freshly mown lawn. Floati...
Stockholm Metro Art: Cave Stations and the World’s Longest Gallery
Stockholm’s metro is often called the world’s longest art gallery. Of its 100 stations, more than 90 are decorated with paintings, sculptur...
Baldwin Street, Dunedin: The World’s Steepest Street and Its Story
Baldwin Street, a quiet residential road in Dunedin on New Zealand's South Island, holds the Guinness World Record as the steepest stree...
How Far From Home: Chanel and Stevo’s Kilometre Chalkboard Journey
On 2 March 2015, Chanel Cartell and Stevo Dirnberger left their advertising jobs in Johannesburg, packed their lives into four bags and boar...
I Was Here Scratch-Off World Map by Art. Lebedev Studio
I Was Here is a scratch-off world map made by Art. Lebedev Studio, the Moscow design company founded by Artemy Lebedev in 1995. Hung on the ...
Herman Damar's Photos of Indonesian Village Life Near Jakarta
Children firing arcs of water at each other, children on a raft, a game played out in soft morning light: Indonesian photographer Herman Dam...
9 Ways Travel Sharpens Your Mind: What Research Shows and How to Try It
Travel can make you a sharper, more creative thinker, but only if you engage with the places you visit. Research by social psychologists Wil...
Abandoned Places Around the World: 24 Ruins and the Stories Behind Them
A communist monument on a Balkan peak, a diamond town filling with Namibian sand, a ship that became a mangrove forest in Sydney: abandoned...
Córdoba, Andalusia: The Mosque-Cathedral, Patios and Roman Bridge
Córdoba sits on the right bank of the Guadalquivir in Andalusia, and few cities in Europe pack so much history into a walkable centre. Roma...
Panathenaic Stadium, Athens: The Marble Home of the 1896 Olympics
The Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, known to Greeks as the Kallimarmaro, the "beautiful marble", is the only stadium in the world b...
Drone Travel Videos from Around the World: Reading Landscapes from Above
Lift a camera a hundred metres above a coastline and the place rearranges itself. A beach becomes a thin pale line, a reef turns into a pat...
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2015 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest: 10 Highlighted Entries
Every year, the National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest drew thousands of entries from amateur and professional photographers around the ...
19 Lesser-Known Travel Destinations: From Huacachina to Lake Natron
A desert oasis on a banknote, a garden of concrete follies in the Mexican rainforest, a soda lake where most of the world's lesser flami...
30 Cityscapes Around the World, from Athens to Hong Kong and Rio
From the Acropolis above Athens to the towers of Hong Kong and the harbour of Rio de Janeiro, these 30 cityscapes show how hills, rivers, c...
Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant, Sister Bay: Goats on the Roof Since 1973
In Sister Bay, Wisconsin, breakfast comes with a view of goats. Every summer a small herd grazes the grass roof of Al Johnson’s Swedish Res...
Cloud 9 Fiji: Floating Bar on Ro Ro Reef, Transfers and What to Expect
Cloud 9 is a two-level floating bar and pizzeria anchored over Ro Ro Reef in Fiji's Mamanuca Islands, with nothing around it but clear t...
31 Beautiful Libraries and Bookshops Around the World, from Admont to Porto
A great library is a building designed around the idea that knowledge deserves beauty. These 31 libraries and bookshops span seven centurie...
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10 Remarkable Hotel Pools, from Santorini’s Caldera to a Chilean Lagoon
A great hotel pool can be the reason for a whole trip: an infinity edge that seems to pour into Santorini’s caldera, a seawater lagoon a kil...
Vaadhoo Island Sea of Stars: Bioluminescence in the Maldives
On some nights the waves on Vaadhoo Island in the Maldives break in electric blue, and footprints on the wet sand light up with every step. ...
Opera Houses of the World: 10 Great Theatres from La Scala to the Met
The great opera houses of the world are as much a part of their cities as cathedrals or palaces. Some have staged the premieres of works tha...
Freedom Cove: Wayne Adams and Catherine King’s Floating Home Near Tofino
Magenta and turquoise buildings float on a sheltered inlet near Tofino, on the wild west coast of Vancouver Island, with rainforest rising ...