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Adventure

Ana (pictured) and her mother Keisha were the first women from the Caribbean to enter space (Credit: Virgin Galactic)
Adventure & Experience

How an 18-year-old went to space

By Amanda Ruggeri

Rotating cloud hovering over field in Lodgepole, Nebraska
In Pictures

Eight supercell storms around the US

By Camille Seaman
According to Scubanomics, there are around 6 million active scuba divers in the world (Credit: Extreme Photographer/Getty Images)
Future of Travel

How deep-sea tourism became so popular

By Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey
(Credit: Alfonso d'Ors)
Adventure & Experience

The ultimate solo adventure?

By Heather Jasper
(Credit: Sulo Letta / Alamy Stock Photo)
Adventure & Experience

The world's highest cash machine

By Aysha Imtiaz
The Flinders have been called “one great outdoor museum” (Credit: Piter Lenk/Alamy Stock Photo)
Geological Marvels

Australia's trail where life began

By Tracey Croke
(Credit: Muhammad Owais Khan)
The Open Road

Alexander the Great's ancient highway

By Simon Urwin
Road curves through trees
The Open Road

Napoleon's gravity-defying 325km road

By John Silcox
Women porters, guides and hikers linking arms and looking out on an Inca Trail view
50 Reasons to Love the World

A new history on the Inca Trail

By Barbara Noe Kennedy
The Adirondacks are bigger than Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Glacier and the Great Smoky Mountain
Slowcomotion

The longest bike trail in the US

By Sebastian Modak
(Credit: Blake Kent/Getty Images)
50 Reasons to Love the World

The 'Indiana Jones' of the Caribbean

By Steph Keelan & Chris Black
Saudi Arabia's ancient Nabataean ruins of Madain Salih were carved into sandstone outcrops some 2,000 years ago (Credit: John Stanmeyer/National Geographic)
50 Reasons to Love the World

A 33,000km walk from humans' birthplace

By Neeta Lal
Sealand was founded as a sovereign principality in 1967 in international waters (Credit: Robert Harding/Alamy)
Places That Don't Belong

A tiny ‘nation’ of British eccentricity

By Mike MacEacheran
In 1942, Felice Benuzzi hatched a plan to successfully climb Mt Kenya (Credit: africanmoose/Getty Images)
Adventure & Experience

How boredom can inspire adventure

By Erin Craig
The peaks around Rogers Pass are home to some of Canada’s best backcountry skiing (Credit: Parks Canada/I Houghton)
Adventure & Experience

The Swiss village lost in Canada

By Cassidy Randall
(Credit: Werner Hoffmann)
Adventure & Experience

A town that resembles the Moon

By Piet van Niekerk & Werner Hoffmann