Not all tourist spots attract throngs of visitors. These places offer intrigue and visual appeal but also insight to ...

What happens when people leave a place behind? Nature takes over. Across the United States, ghost towns once bustling with ...

Step into the shadows of once-thriving cities now left to decay... 🏙️ From radioactive ghost towns to sunken metropolises, this countdown unveils 15 abandoned cities that echo with stories of ...

Though we haven't yet mastered the science of time travel, these are places visitors can explore that appear lost in time.

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek's walks through the countryside of Japan have been unexpectedly lonely. That's ...

From Wrangell, Alaska, to Oatman, Arizona, you'll be surprised to see what these places looked like a century ago.

From weird flying objects and unexplained orbs to ghostly experiences, these towns promise visitors strange but memorable ...

In normal times, cities beckon us to engage, to crowd ... Empty tour buses, abandoned train stations and, once thought unimaginable, Los Angeles devoid of congestion. It’s as though war had ...

An abandoned 54-foot cabin cruiser beached since ... “They didn’t hire us,” Jarvis said of the city. “We just did it.” In December, the owner of the boat had racked up more than $44,000 ...

Blue ghost fireflies, found in North ... There are more than 2,400 species of fireflies in the United States. While most people are familiar with the sporadic twinkling of the more common species ...

stretching across nine countries in South America. It has been a source of mystery and legends for centuries, and is home to poisonous creatures, lost cities and even a boiling river. Discovered ...