In July 1848, Thomas Roys, master of the whaling ship Superior, out of Sag Harbor, New York, sailed north through the Bering ...

Imagine stumbling upon a piece of genuine history while doing something totally mundane, like cleaning out your garage or ...

In April, the U.S. Coast Guard seized roughly 10,000 pounds of cocaine from a fishing boat in the Atlantic Ocean. Spanish ...

The Linguistic Shipwreck at Land's End Cornwall literally means "the people of the horn," from Celtic kernou "horn," hence ...

Soap Lake gets the title for reasons both scientific and supernatural, writes Matthew Sullivan, author of a new novel set there.

Without Gordon Lightfoot's song, the Edmund Fitzgerald could have faded from memory along with the names of the roughly 6,500 ...

With its blend of natural wonders, maritime history, and small-town charm, Alpena offers visitors the rare opportunity to experience the authentic Michigan that exists beyond the well-worn tourist ...

No wonder the unintended consequences of Obamacare have been as far-reaching as the law itself. New Mexico, then as now, ...

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point is home to the only item removed from the Edmund Fitzgerald.

There, in Antarctica’s Western Weddell Sea, researchers discovered more than 1,000 circular mounds of sand which had cleared ...