The author takes a trip to HempCon with her anxious, insomniac, ultra-Orthodox Jewish mother.

A stroll through Tokyo’s Tsukiji, the world’s largest seafood market, and the mecca of the global sushi trade.

A visit to the American base in Antarctica, an “open-air museum of prefabricated regret.”

Scenes from a class conflict playing out between millionaires and billionaires on Hawaii’s Big Island.

What increased tourism means for the people of the Northwest Passage.

Happiness is a warm pool.

After too many tragedies, a veteran guide may turn his back on the mountain.

“I never got the ‘I’ve never seen a black woman, let me touch your hair’ vibe, it was more just like, ‘Hi, attractive person, let’s do this.’”

A helicopter pilot crash-lands in the Arctic.

If you don’t get sick, was it really a vacation?

A trip to Japan and a glimpse of our automated future.

An attempt to make sense of the dog meat industry in Vietnam, an unregulated maze of black market slaughterhouses, home restaurants, and thieves who are often murdered in the open when caught stealing the family pet.

Training for a Mars mission on a Hawaiian volcano

The idea was to shoot a Neiman Marcus fur catalog in the Andes mountains, not get stranded on them.

“We take the bus when we can’t afford to do anything but disappear.”

A traveler tries to make sense of a beautiful island with a dark past.

A visit to Albania to watch Henry Marsh perform his pioneering surgery where the patient is kept awake during the removal of a tumor and the “brain is stimulated with an electric probe, so that the surgeon can see if and how the patient reacts.”

A wandering long-distance canoeist goes missing.

In search of Ramanujan in India.

The story of Jeffrey Fowle, an Ohio man who tried to smuggle a Bible into North Korea.

As the birds decline, one Icelandic island keeps throwing a rowdy, boozy puffin festival.

Controversy following a climbing disaster that killed eight.

Going “Full Mickey” at Disneyland.

The life of a trans woman on the border between El Paso and Juárez.