Travel

Saturn, a restored 1906 fly-boat

Afloat with Fly Boats and Leggers

Enthusiasts are rediscovering the vast system of narrow canals that connects England's byways and backways

Kerrville Folk Festival

Camping in Concert

At this outdoor folk-music festival in rural Texas, you're not a "Kerrvivor" unless you stay till the end

South Entrance, Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery

Art's Moving Experience

Before works go on tour during a three-year museum renovation, there's lots of sprucing up and packing

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Who's a Yuppie Twit?

Jeweler Harry Winston donated the famous Hope Diamond—the largest-known deep blue diamond in the world—to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958. It arrived in a plain brown package by registered mail, insured for one million dollars. Surrounded by 16 white pear-shaped and cushion-cut diamonds and hanging from a chain with 45 diamonds, the rare gem attracts 6 million visitors a year to the Natural History Museum.

The Hope Diamond

Beirut city skyline in the early 2000s

Beirut Rises from the Ashes

After surviving a civil war, the city is once again a mecca for artists, a landscape covered with architecture and a wonderland of discoveries

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The End of the Road

In Idaho's Clearwater National Forest, old logging roads that ruin streams are getting the axe

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Good-bye, Rhode Island

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Inexplicable Moments

Strange things happen at this wacky crossroads of the hopelessly alien-addled in the Nevada desert

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Yalta: Witness to History

When the Big Three —Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin —convened at this fabled Crimean seaside resort in 1945, the whole world was watching

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Quicksand? Don't Sink, Just "Dance" Across It

Fort Jefferson is no longer in use as a military facility and is currently part of the Dry Tortugas National Park.

A Jewel in the Dry Tortugas

Barren, birdy and beautiful, Florida's remote Fort Jefferson has tales, terns and not much fresh water

Big Sur

Big Sur

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IMAX Takes Us Undersea in the Galápagos

Filmmakers shooting a new 3-D IMAX movie discover tragedy and technical challenges amid moments of breathtaking beauty

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Walking the Grizzlies' Road, Yellowstone to the Yukon

Trekking 2,000 miles across rugged wilderness, biologist Karsten Heuer has braved bears and avalanches on behalf of a bold conservation initiative

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IMAX Takes Us Undersea in the Galapagos

Filmmakers shooting a new 3-D IMAX movie discover tragedy and technical challenges amid moments of breathtaking beauty

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The Resurrection of the Stones

Rising stark against the night sky, spectral ruins recall the wealth and power of Britain's once-great monasteries

Cyprus Lives in Love and Strife

Despite ethnic tensions, today's tourists can't resist the past and present of this ancient Mediterranean crossroads

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Renovating Washington's Monument, Designer-Style

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High & Dry

On the loose in the punishing terrain of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

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