Wengen: a carless winter wonderland in Switzerland

Since Mary Shelley and her husband Percy visited in the early 1800s, the Swiss village of Wengen has drawn visitors to its idyllic alpine setting.

A journey across the Galápagos, where evolution never sits still

An archipelago in motion – tortoises on the march, lava still cooling and a fragile balance as record visitor numbers test one of the world’s great living laboratories

Avenue of the Baobabs: Madagascar's natural monument with dozens of 'mother of the forest' trees

The trees are the remnants of a tropical forest that once sprawled across the island, and in the modern era they are listed as a natural monument by Madagascar's government.

Fordlândia: Henry Ford’s colonialist Amazonian utopia

In the late 1920s, deep in the Brazilian Amazon, a small town looked less like South America and more like suburban Midwest America.

Rainbow Valley in Northern Territory, Australia

Rainbow Valley’s colorful name comes from its distinctive sandstone bluffs, which first formed 350 million years ago.

Domicide

At a Neolithic site in southern Turkey, archaeologists unearthed a complex of buildings that had been buried, intentionally.

Socotra, an island apart from mainland Yemen’s turmoil – in pictures

The desert that fed the world

A journey through Chile’s far north reveals how the Atacama shaped global agriculture, redrew borders and left a political legacy that continues to resonate

Come Face to Face with the “Eyes of God” – Prohodna Cave, Bulgaria

Dotted throughout Bulgaria's Iskăr gorge are numerous caves, none more famous than Prohodna where visitors can behold nothing less than the “Eyes of God”