I have a soft spot for weird roadside dinosaurs. The bizarre tourist trap monsters always make me smile when I see them standing awkwardly along America's highways.

Even though, given my job as a science writer, I can be a bit of a pedant about the inaccuracies of aberrant...

Ah, the summer road trip. A classic pilgrimage for Jack Kerouac's and RV-driving Americans alike. If you're headed down south, New Orleans is a city you cannot skip past. Especially now that it's got an unbelievably strange and beautiful music box shantytown in its historic Bywater section of...

Forty-three years ago, Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon. Nowadays, the idea of vacation on the moon is gaining traction with the American public.

In June of 1958, 11 years before the Apollo 11 landing, the popular Sunday comic strip "Closer Than We...

As famed grand tours of summer such as the Tour de France roll through Europe on carbon frames and ultra-light wheels, a number of lesser-known, if more rigorous, races are also gearing up to go. They include cycling and foot races that take athletes through some of the...

Our editors pored over more than 67,000 photographs, each one a postcard from a unique time and place for our annual photo contest. In our July/August 2012 issue that launched online Friday, we announced our winner, Jia Han Dong, 52, a shipping company manager from New...

With 21 swimming pools, 24 restaurants and its own version of New York City's Central Park, this $1.5 billion cruise ship's 5,400 passengers should have plenty to do.

Royal Caribbean's "Oasis Of The Seas," the world's most massive luxury cruise liner, dwarfs the second-largest ship, the Queen...

I am not a Scuba-certified diver, and I may never be. Instead, I free dive and have been for about 13 years, mostly along the coast of California, and, most of the time, I have no interest in introducing tanks, tubes and pressure valves to the simple relationship I have...

Foot travel has been the way of the wayfarer since men and women were still dragging their knuckles. The fact that people still opt to walk today, in the age of the wheel and the combustion engine, tells us there is something virtuous and irresistible in the plodding of one...