A new documentary uses rare footage of the escape route North Koreans take as they try to defect. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with director Madeleine Gavin and defector Soyeon Lee about the journey.

Bashar al-Assad's secret escape tunnels have been revealed — and it's something you have to see to believe. Syrian rebels discovered the luxury underground network during their raids after ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Olde Towne Portsmouth is full of history, and a new sign coming to the area will mark how the town played a local role in the Underground Railroad. The African American ...

And the nearby north-south state Route 39 was completed in 1961, but the last few miles closed in 1978 after mud and rockslides — and the road has stopped at a dead-end ever since.

The latter was the fate for the crew of the Pearl Schooner. The ship was trying to escape from Washington, D.C., to New Jersey in 1848 with 77 enslaved men, women and children.

The gateway For many, that overland route begins in Quito, Ecuador – a city of roughly 2.5 million high in the Andean foothills that has become a gateway for those escaping China.