One of the most freeing things about long car trips is one's ability to hop into a vehicle, turn the music up and zone out as you fly down the highway.

Some places on earth are so full of vibrant color, natural wonder, and jaw-dropping vistas they look like they leapt from the pages of a science fiction novel or off the palate of an oil painting. ...

The true beauty of running is the clarity that it brings and the places it can take you. Like music, running requires no translation to bring people together. Running can be done anywhere in the wo...

Despite the fact that the humans have covered most of the world in networks of asphalt, there remain a handful of untouched places so untamed and off-the-beaten path that you can only reach them by...

Isolated in the rural western reaches of the Tibetan Plateau lies one of the most sacred pilgrimage sites on the planet: Mount Kailash. It sits next to the source of four major rivers (the Indus, S...

Physically changing history, the Silk Road paved the way to exchange an immense amount of commerce, knowledge and culture between the East and the West. Wars have been fought along its length, empi...

Because who doesn't love a cuddly panda?

After gazing up at the ominous winding steps and hundreds of Chinese tourists milling about, it was hard not to imagine I was about to embark on some sort of mystical journey. The kind that could o...

Waterfalls are caused by an undercutting of rock (more commonly, a mountain) and water erosion. The uppermost eroded layer of rock hangs ever so slightly over the mountain causing a turbulent surge...