Explore 25 epic expeditions and the explorers that made them, from ancient voyages to polar treks. Discover the daring ...

Feted by royalty and friends with other intellectual luminaries of his day, George Forster was one history's greatest explorers. An early advocate of racial and gender equality, retracing his journeys ...

More than 530 years after Christopher Columbus led an expedition across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World, many Americans still see the navigator as a symbol of their country’s origins. Others see ...

From Amelia Earhart to Percy Fawcett’s expedition to the Lost City of Z, the fate of these five explorers remains mysterious. Amelia Earhart poses for a portrait in an airplane circa 1936. The pilot ...