This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Grand Canal barges have no fancy names, no mermaids planted on the bow, no corny sayings painted on the stern. Instead ...

This story appears in the December 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Rocket engine parts, chocolate figurines, functional replica pistols, a Dutch canal house, designer sunglasses ...

National Geographic photographer Jonathan Irish recently ... Once one of Amsterdam’s busiest shipping ports, in the mid-19th century the canal was partially filled, creating an avenue that ...

This story is part of a special National Geographic News series on global ... brick sewer until it reaches the Harlem River Ship Canal, which was dug in the 1890s, shaping the border with Manhattan.

As a big-wave surfer, the Brazilian adrenaline junkie set records at the highest surf break on Earth. She’s still committed ...

Peter Gwin is an editor at large for National Geographic and cohost of the award-winning podcast Overheard. He began as a staff writer for the magazine in 2003, and has contributed stories from an ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. When confronted with the limits of the known world, a 16th-century European cartographer inscribed the warning “Here ...