As you descend into the small coastal community, the Pacific Ocean unfurls before you like nature’s version of a welcome mat—three miles of pristine white sand beach bordered by rolling hills that ...

Local residents have their own relationship with the bakery, stopping in for morning coffee and a Danish, picking up birthday cakes that have become family traditions, or simply bringing out-of-town ...

Every year, ultrarunners sign up to compete in a brutal race that stretches 135 miles across Death Valley in the high heat of summer. Because of its harsh conditions, the Badwater 135 is perhaps the ...