If you’re looking for an alternative location with a beautiful landscape and roaring water, you just might fall in love with rocky beaches.

After climbing hundreds of stairs, passing a giant waterfall, and hiking the first six-and-a-half miles of the Appalachian Trail in the mountains of North Georgia, you might be surprised at what you find. I know I was.

My favorite place in the entire world sits at the inward-most point of Moray Firth in northern Scotland. And there, along that bay that feeds into the North Sea, just 17 miles east of Inverness, is a small, beautiful town called Nairn.

Antarctica: the intense frozen continent that serves as the setting for Sir Ernest Shackleton’s daring expeditions. Explorers and scholars have been making the voyage to the icy landscape ever since it was first discovered by John Davis in early 1821.

Generally, voluntourism is done with good intentions, but unfortunately, good intentions don’t always have good impacts.

Discover the magic of proposing under the pristine night sky, explore the impact of light pollution, and learn how DarkSky International is preserving our celestial wonderlands.

What do the Pyramids, Westminster Abbey, and Pompeii have in common? It’s not just that they’re popular tourist sites—they’re also resting places for the dead.

Nose jobs in Turkey. Dental implants in Mexico. Kidney transplants in India.

Tourists love to visit far-off countries to enjoy sand, sun, and sights; but what is life really like for the people who live in those countries? How do the residents of tourism hot spots view the travelers who frequent their sites?

Home from a vacation? Don’t let those blues get you down!