Shipping in the Great Lakes first began about 300 years ago with French fur trappers, followed by loggers, salt miners and other industries. The Great Lakes region was also a theater of war during the ...

Sure, we all know the story of the Titanic, the “unsinkable” ship that indeed sank back on April 15, 1912. We know about The ...

T here’s nothing like the family-friendly energy of a welcoming coastal town to help you enjoy the last few weeks of summer.

Beach vacations only became popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries as part of the lifestyle of the wealthy in Western ...

Discover the untamed beauty of Ouessant, a remote island off Brittany's coast that is a stunning unspoiled wilderness, ...

More than 2,000 navigational beacons, big and small, oversee the nation’s 60,000-mile-long coast. Now they need an upgrade.

Located where the Pere Marquette River meets Lake Michigan, Ludington offers natural beauty and simple pleasures in abundance ...

A schoolboy's discovery of a 250-year-old shipwreck on a Scottish beach led archaeologists to uncover a hidden piece of ...

Wooden remains of the Earl of Chatham, a British warship from 1749 that was used during the American Revolution, were ...

Frisco is on the verge of regaining one of its iconic landmarks, roughly a century after it disappeared. Contractors are ...

The SS Andrea Doria was loaded with 1,706 people when a Swedish ocean liner crashed into her side in 1956 off Nantucket ...