If you’re into engineering or just want to check off the boxes of iconic roadside America, visiting Hoover Dam is probably on ... the park and takes you to the Emerald Pools.

Where to have fun: One of the states with the best access to national parks, South Dakota is home to Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Badlands National Park and Wind Cave National Park ...

The excursion is along the Colorado River's Black Canyon National Water Trail— crossing the widest single-arch concrete ...

Sitting about 35 miles southeast of Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam spans the Colorado River and the Black Canyon (which separates Nevada and Arizona). The immense concrete structure – which confines ...

The Hoover Dam that sits on the Nevada/Arizona border produces a mere 4.2 TWh, comparatively. The Yarlung Zangbo River, which later turns into the Brahmaputra when it enters India, is one of the ...

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Why it's awesome: Deep inside one of Gabon's cave systems lives an unusual population of orange dwarf crocodiles. They live in complete darkness, feast on bats and swim in liquid guano (aka bat poop.) ...

Scientists say the snail darter, whose endangered species status delayed the building of a dam in Tennessee in the 1970s, is a genetic match of a different fish. By Jason Nark For such a tiny fish ...

Some words may be mispronounced. The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum in West Branch will close its museum Monday for over a year while it undergoes its first major renovation in ...

In the 1970s, the discovery of the Tennessee snail darter in the Tellico River was used to halt completion of the Tellico Dam under the Endangered Species Act (a tale many law students learn in ...

The oldest active high school gym in the state of Indiana will be celebrated Saturday when Mishawaka boys basketball hosts Northview in “The Cave.” Doors open at 12:45 p.m., with the JV game ...

The ambitious plan to build a mega-hydropower dam across the Brahmaputra at the Great Bend region of the Medog county in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) in China, has been in the drawing ...