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 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.

This story appears in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the summer of 2008 an American crocodile left Florida's Biscayne Bay, swam along a yacht-lined canal through the ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... is dumped into this canal on Taiwan’s southwest coast.

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 ...