For centuries the silver-rich Bolivian Andes have produced astonishing wealth and an equal measure of human hardship
When you see mermaids cavorting just off U.S. 19 in central Florida, you may be tempted to join them
In the 1860s, the Lakota and their allies, led by chief Red Cloud, closed an immigrant route and made it stick
You don't just shop at this international food mart in deepest Ohio—you go on safari
After more than a century on the bottom of Lake Superior, a sunken treasure of old-growth wood comes alive again
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When they moved here in 1976, the author and his wife thought they knew all about the French. How wrong they were
The news from New York's Central Park has been grim lately, but Maria Hernandez is holding up her end
To the "detectives" who solve the mysteries of errant mail, every letter is a human tale
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Enthusiasts are rediscovering the vast system of narrow canals that connects England's byways and backways
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At this outdoor folk-music festival in rural Texas, you're not a "Kerrvivor" unless you stay till the end
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Before works go on tour during a three-year museum renovation, there's lots of sprucing up and packing
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After surviving a civil war, the city is once again a mecca for artists, a landscape covered with architecture and a wonderland of discoveries
In Idaho's Clearwater National Forest, old logging roads that ruin streams are getting the axe
Strange things happen at this wacky crossroads of the hopelessly alien-addled in the Nevada desert
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