NEW HAVEN, CT.- In the last years of his life, Thomas Holloway (1800-1883), a self-made millionaire, dedicated himself to creating a world-class ...

Sir Michael Palin and Dan Snow explore the storied history of HMS Terror and Erebus, two bomb ships that were repurposed for ...

The Franklin expedition set out to discover the ever-elusive Northwest Passage, but all 129 crew perished in mysterious ...

The tall, dashing, well-connected Sir Hugh Willoughby may have looked like a proper explorer, but he was a disastrous choice ...

Canada’s Arctic is easier to explore than ever before thanks to a new highway, more cruise options, and fly-in hiking and ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Arctic was still a vast, unexplored and unknown expanse of ice and snow to western ...

Truly great cities are liberally sprinkled with such signs, inscriptions and carvings. London has thousands of them, each ...

Tacoma Art Museum has received a major promised gift from Seattle art collector Vasiliki Dwyer on behalf of her family and late husband William Dwyer, whose work as a federal judge had broad impact in ...