A light cut through the darkness 104 feet beneath the ocean. This marked our turning point. As we slowly ascended back towards the surface world, red beams burning through swirling silt and murk, our trio of scuba divers seemed to...
“Do you miss Tony?” I asked, as our van hummed over the bustling streets of Shanghai. “Oh yeah,” replied the bearded American expat to my left, “There’s definitely a void. I don’t know if we’ll ever fill it.”...
For more than 100 years, the two-story, brick building on a corner in downtown Memphis has been a fixture of the city’s landscape. Built in the late 1800s on the grounds of a ruined church, the weathered facade...
It lingered and lingered out in the Atlantic. For Americans, Hurricane Dorian were somewhere safe offshore. For our nextdoor neighbors, Dorian’s 200mph bursts and 23-foot storm surges were in their bedrooms. This week, as Hurricane Dorian slammed into...
It snakes for 150 miles along Australia’s southern coast, a black serpent of asphalt humming a symphony of surf and rock. At times, the highway skirts the edges of cliffs hundreds of feet in the air, only to...
On a cold September evening in 1936, Frank Darby locked a door at the Hobart Zoo and closed the coffin on a species. That night, while Darby was presumably home in bed, the last known Tasmanian tiger died...
YABLANITSA, Bulgaria— Three decades ago, no westerner could see this view. The Balkan Mountains lay before me. The sun, still lingering in the early summer air, cast a marigold glow as cool mists rose up from the valley below....
In 1828 Washington Irving arrived in the foothills of a forgotten Spanish city to an unimaginable sight. There, towering over the white washed, stucco houses of Granada, he laid eyes on the great, red walls of the Alhambra:...
He took three strides towards freedom. On the fourth, he returned to the sea. Four months ago, a sea turtle was struck by a jet ski off the coast of Tavernier, Florida, a tiny outpost of an island...
Did Abraham Lincoln’s assassin live for more than three decades after he was officially reported dead? The answer could lie in a mummified corpse that once toured the country under the name of John Wilkes Booth. Though Booth...
