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A 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It's the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

An art dealer in Santa Fe named Forrest Fenn sparked a global mania to find a chest filled with gold he buried in the Rockies. That was just the beginning of the story.

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It felt like paddling through soggy cereal. My wife and I were deep within Everglades National Park, struggling to kayak past dense mats of periphyton, a mass of algae, fungi and other organisms.

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Prairie Creek Redwoods sits along Northern California’s spectacular coastline, forming part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site that also includes Redwood National Park and Del Norte Coast Redwoods State ...

If you’re headed out of Las Vegas, Rhyolite is a must‑see ghost town. Founded in 1905 after Shorty Harris struck gold, it ...

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Gold mining in Glen Canyon reached a zenith from 1883 to 1912; the canyon had been explored by Native Americans and Spanish explorers much earlier.

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