That’s Echo Bluff State Park in Eminence, Missouri – 476 acres of jaw-dropping natural beauty that somehow remains one of the ...

One hundred years ago a Danish immigrant named John Christensen was trying to farm near the village of Itasca. But he kept ...

Check out these top climbing spots around the world. As a global hub for climbers, Yosemite (below) has to be on the list. It is renowned for towering granite formations such as El Capitan and Half ...

CaveCreek4.jpg Penelope Donahue points out fossils in the limestone of the opening of Cave Creek Cave while on a June 8 hike in Santa Fe National Forest. The limestone, which is around 300 million ...

Nature doesn’t follow blueprints, and sometimes the result is strange enough to stop you in your tracks. Around the world, ...

This is known as the Driftless Area, and most of it resides in southwestern Wisconsin, a rural region that begins approximately 120 miles west of Milwaukee, where handmade signs advertise ...

While the traditional elements of Japanese gardens—stone, water, gravel, pruned pines, and asymmetry—are rooted in ...

A groundbreaking discovery by NASA’s Curiosity Rover, featuring a surprisingly rare mineral called siderite, is not only ...

The limestone violently buckled upward, heaving the uppermost rock layers and the overlying clay layer, resulting in the ridge (Figure 12). The crack is simply a superficial feature, resulting from ...

Many people visiting the Berkshires and even longtime residents, have never been to Balance Rock or even heard of it. The location is off of Balance Rock Road in Lanesborough, which is at the end of ...

A 20-minute drive from Red Sea airport, Desert Rock nestles in a five-million-year-old granite valley, where 54 villas and ten suites merge almost imperceptibly with their surroundings. Not since ...

Picture a small Japanese island with white sand beaches, coral reefs, swaying sugarcane, rugged limestone rocks, seas in shifting shades of blue – and a minimalist scattering of modernist villas in ...