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Five Great Places to See Evidence of First Americans
Encounter the fossils and other remnants of the lives left behind by the continent’s original settlers
The Berger Cookie is Baltimore’s Gift to the Chocolate World
For nearly 200 years, the true black-and-white cookie has been delighting residents of Charm City
The House Where Darwin Lived
Home to the naturalist for 40 years, the estate near London was always evolving
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Over the course of just a couple of decades, the Ludden family has amassed enough novelty shakers to fill two museums in the U.S. and Spain
January 23, 2012
| By Derek Workman
The Genoa-based Costa cruise line, owner of the stricken Concordia, has had troubles before
January 20, 2012
| By Susan Spano
Without doubt, fishing is an effective means of bringing people to the water's edge, their eyes open and hearts thumping, to admire the ecosystem and consider the value in preserving it
January 19, 2012
| By Alastair Bland
Foreign tourists and local preservationists are bringing stretches of the storied roadway back to life
February 2012
| By David Lamb
Andrew was sullen, silent and soaked to the skin after spending eight hours in the rain standing in a river waving a stick
January 17, 2012
| By Alastair Bland
Just miles from Peru’s Incan ruins lie artifacts from another era—beautiful Baroque churches that married Spanish design with indigenous culture
January 12, 2012
| By Rebecca Dalzell
New Zealand is worth visiting, but I'm not sure how long I can keep traveling here while claiming to be "on the cheap"
January 12, 2012
| By Alastair Bland
The family spent days in a government cabin eating food, all provided by the New Zealand Department of Conservation, which only requested an effort to stomp on kiwi-killing vermin in return
January 10, 2012
| By Alastair Bland
We turned to John Kress, an expert on how plants and birds co-evolved over time, for his pick for an evolution vacation
January 06, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
An organic farming network gave my niece the opportunity. Then she gave me the nectar of the gods
January 06, 2012
| By Susan Spano
The absence of native mammals, aside from bats and pinnipeds, gives the impression that New Zealand is still in the age of dinosaurs
January 05, 2012
| By Alastair Bland
Anyone would be a fool to visit the South Island and not see the cliffs and marine scenery of Milford Sound, maybe the closest thing the real world knows to the fabled “Cliffs of Insanity" of The Princess Bride
January 04, 2012
| By Alastair Bland
Now out on DVD, The Trip, with comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, takes the road movie into the storied English countryside
January 04, 2012
| By Susan Spano
Get your grizzlies, polar bears, big cats, wolves and crocs here
December 30, 2011
| By Alastair Bland
Don't overpack is a rule to live by. So why not declutter on New Year's Eve
December 29, 2011
| By Susan Spano
Are people playing games while climbing the world’s tallest mountain? That's hard to say, but they’re definitely texting
December 27, 2011
| By Alastair Bland
Pitcairn Island is populated by 50 people, has a handful of hostels, a general store and a café and, frankly, could really use a few visitors
December 22, 2011
| By Alastair Bland
There are valuable discoveries, but at a German Christmas market all I could find was Third World junk that only looks good if you drink a lot of gluhwein
December 21, 2011
| By Susan Spano
It was only weeks later that I learned what a klutz I'd been. It's a miracle I wasn't thrown to the bears
December 20, 2011
| By Alastair Bland
At an abbey in the Czech town of Brno, a friar studied peas and laid the groundwork for modern genetics
January 2012
| By Beth Py-Lieberman
The best opportunity to play paleontologist is on the southern coast of England, a site rich with marine reptile fossils
January 2012
| By Sarah Zielinski
In Egypt's Western Desert, evidence abounds that before they were the kings of the ocean, whales roamed the earth on four legs
January 2012
| By Abigail Tucker
Mammals come in three types and the best place to see them all in one place is this small island off the southern coast of Australia
January 2012
| By Laura Helmuth
Just a short drive from the mansions of Beverly Hills lies a site where paleontologists have found over three million fossils
January 01, 2012
| By Marian Holmes
Located in the Canadian Rockies, the fossil-rich dig site provides clues to scientists investigating how animal life began
January 01, 2012
| By Jeanne Maglaty
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