The top 10 most dangerous places in the world, where adventure meets risk. These destinations offer thrill-seekers a unique, ...

Lying deep in the African desert sits the colourful and supersaturated hot springs of the world's 'hottest' town.

This story appears in the July 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the Afar desert of Ethiopia, there are a lot of ways to die. There is disease, of course. One can also perish from ...

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

Scientists brave the desert's hardships for a different reason. The Afar is one of the few places on Earth where an undersea ridge—a jagged volcanic seam where magma oozes up and becomes new ...

The trail is a curated collection of national and state parks, observatories, planetariums, and musuems that offer travelers ...