Alice Murphy had low expectations of Switzerland's federal city until she visited in May.

What most people don’t do, however, is carve time for Bern, Switzerland’s federal (rather than capital) city which boasts a medieval old town, a captivating turquoise river and a reputation for being ...

Continents would scurry across the globe, oceans would open and close, and new mountains would shoot up toward the sky. Yet even as mountains rise, they also periodically sink back down when the ...