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Feel like traveling to a city, but don't want to get caught up just in the urban lifestyle of restaurants and museums? Fortunately there are metropolises in the world that have a little bit more adventure to offer than rush hour traffic. Here are six places where you can play outdoors by day, befor...

The American autumn may signify a new season of shorter days, warm-toned foliage, and network television shows, but in the southern hemisphere -- particularly in Antarctica -- things are just getting warmed up. It's the spring down there after all, only to be followed by the Antarctic summer, when ...

According to The Guardian and Discovery News, archaeologists have just discovered an ancient gold mine in northern Ethiopia, along with the ruins of a lost temple and bones at the site of an old battlefield. It has been hypothesized that these once belonged to the Queen of Sheba, the monarch of the...

The desert has always served as a vast and mysterious stage for many lost and hidden civilizations in pop culture folklore, from the lost city of Tanis in Raiders of the Lost Ark, to the Cave of Wonders in Disney's Aladdin, to Ubar, the "Atlantis of the Sands" in Uncharted 3. In real life, archaeol...

As travel writer Bill Bryson pointed out in his book In a Sunburned Country, Australia "has more things that will kill you than anywhere else" -- including poisonous snakes and jellyfish, crocodiles, and sharks. If you're traveling to the Land Down Under, be wary of those things -- but now add pine...