National Geographic named a lesser-known Oregon state park among its list of state parks that deliver "awe without the crowds ...

Throughout antiquity, kingdoms and nations rose and fell but Rome stood strong—until its steep decline. The fall of this ...

The revolutionary invention of autochromes changed photography. As those pictures decay, they're revealing a new kind of ...

From its pre-Columbian peak, the Florida black bear population fell precipitously. Between unregulated hunting and habitat loss, bear populations dwindled. By the 1970s, the Florida black bear had ...

In the former capital of Hue, historical food fashions are enjoying a renaissance and making this central Vietnam city an ...

New imaging technology has allowed scientists to decipher the tattoos of an Iron Age mummy—and study them like never before.

A newly discovered 460-million-year-old trilobite showed signs of being shaped and flattened—the first indication that ...

This year marks half a century since the end of the Vietnam War — a period the country commemorates through poignant museums ...

Azerbaijan’s relationship with wine is a resilient love affair marked with cruel and often surprising twists and turns. We ...

In the Canadian Rockies, a cowgirl-powered ranch takes riders into the heart of the Banff National Park, retracing a tangle ...

For thousands of years sirens have lured sailors, haunted coastlines—and shapeshifted through myth and media. Here's how they ...

As New York City celebrates the 400th anniversary of its founding, National Geographic looks back on more than a century of ...