Even after a 220,000-year break, the caldera can get rolling in just a few years. By Scott K. Johnson.

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Barcelona’s incoming mayor made headlines recently when she discussed implementing an entry cap to the Spanish city, but she’s not the only one who thinks tourism should be moderated. Check out some of the other destinations around the world that have proposed—or put into place—such measures.

“My friend’s court session was on an upper floor, and with delight he showed me how we would get there. Like a functional artifact, there it was: a paternoster. This antiquarian elevator, a silent-movie fixture, (there’s one in Metropolis) consists of small open compartments cycling in a slow vertical loop. Passengers can board or exit on any floor, at any time...”

These listed ten amazing real places to visit stand testament to the surreal, spectacular and mysterious beauty of nature.

London is a city ruled by money. The things that make it special – the markets, pubs, high streets and communities – are becoming unrecognisable. The city is suffering a form of entropy whereby anything distinctive is converted into property value. Can the capital save itself?

Crystals as big as cities and a sea of liquid metal are just some of the wonders you would see.

Galapagos Finches are famous, yet Darwin learned more about evolution from the plants.

“Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.”

For the very first time, a modern day Noah's Ark has opened its doors for an exclusive inside look offering up plans for the ultimate Billionaire bunker and doomsday escape...

And 50 Years of Fiction About an American Military Base. By David Vine.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's most beloved properties, Taliesin, was inspired by Wisconsin's natural beauty. But its history is mired in tragedy

It was Blair Braverman’s dream job: living on a glacier in the remote Alaskan wilderness, driving a team of huskies through the snow, showing tourists the real Alaska. Then one day things got too real.

For over a decade I have been collecting place-words: gleaned singly from conversations, correspondences, or books, and jotted down in journals or on slips of paper. Now and then I have hit buried treasure in the form of vernacular dictionaries or extraordinary people—troves that have held gleaming handfuls of coinages. One such trove... By Robert MacFarlane.

An island stay sounds dreamy, but the reality of these five quarantine islands was often a nightmare.

White sand beaches are for basic tourists.

Anyone driving west from Washington DC towards the Allegheny Mountains will arrive before long in a vast area without mobile phone signals. This is the National Radio Quiet Zone - 13,000 square miles (34,000 sq km) of radio silence. What is it for and how long will it survive? As we drive into the Allegheny Mountains the car radio fades to static. I glance at my mobile phone but the signal has disappeared.

In a desert in eastern Sudan, along the banks of the Nile River, lies a collection of nearly 200 ancient pyramids - many of them tombs of the kings and queens of the Meroitic Kingdom which ruled the area for more than 900 years.

Nepal is a narrow, landlocked country directly north of India and below China. Located where two tectonic plates meet, it the area is prone to earthquakes.

Cuba is a small country, yet it is the largest island in the Caribbean Sea. In square miles, including the many keys and islets that dot its coastline, it is just a bit larger than Tennessee. Put another way, it could hold Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New Jersey with a little room to spare...