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Caves are cool. Slipping out of a hot, muggy day into the cool environs of a cave is the pre-modern equivalent of …

It was perfectly logical to believe. After all, the Rhine connected with the Danube via the Main and a short portage, tying …

At the South Unit of Badlands National Park in South Dakota there’s a visitor center that doesn’t really want visitors. The South …

“Chuff-chuff-chuff,” came the sound. I stopped dead in my tracks and listened.I had been hiking the trail high in the Bitterroot Mountains …

Okay, I kid you not. I’ve been to a place where balls roll uphill, broomsticks stand on end, people grow taller just …

Here’s what I learned from the media on February 18th: Justin Bieber is acting strangely. He wore a gas mask in public …

The ghosts of children are said to haunt the abandoned hallways of the Concho Indian Boarding School in Concho, Oklahoma.  Paranormalists take …

The Ozarks is one of “the most backward and deliberately unprogressive regions of the United States,” declared Vance Randolph, a noted folklorist …

Even 70 years later, one of the most common questions asked by tourists visiting Atlanta is “Where is Tara?” Not where is …

Field of Dreams is about dreams, magic, life, and what is quintessentially American. Naturally, some people despise it. In the spring of …