The Yukon Territory glows—but not with city lights. “Everywhere you look is like a painting” here, with auroras that last for ...

The Yukon Territory glows—but not with city lights. “Everywhere you look is like a painting” here, with auroras that last for ...

So long as you choose the right cruise line, there's plenty to keep the whole family entertained on an Alaska cruise.

Known for its heritage elegance, the Queen Elizabeth liner is now the most glamorous way to see Alaska’s wonders ...

Snyder is one of 46 volunteer guides who help turn certain trains into something like rolling national parks, complete with specialized stamps for your National Park ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to increase entrance fees at U.S. national parks for visitors from other countries, even as his administration seeks to cut national ...

“The guides get to pick and choose,” said Sydney Rometsch, park ranger and manager of visitor center operations for the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in Seattle, which works on ...

Four decades after Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado shot a human anthill of mud-spattered miners digging for gold in the middle of the Amazon, some of the "garimpeiros," now into their ...

- 'Happy suffering' - Other former "garimpeiros," as illegal gold miners are known in Brazil, who joined the gold rush in the 1980s, also remained behind in Serra Pelada, now a town of some 6,000 ...

Serra Pelada, the site of a Brazilian gold rush in the 1980s, still maintains about 6,000 residents living there today 'It was a kind of happy suffering,' said Francisco Aderbal, a 63-year-old former ...