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In honor of Women's History Month, we're celebrating the achievements of women around the globe and throughout history. From the pages of The Explorers Journal, we're sharing stories from four women who broke boundaries in exploration, research, and science. In our final spotlight, meet the first American woman to walk in space and to reach the deepest known point in the ocean, Dr. Kathy Sullivan.

Explore Alaska on an RV road trip, seeing Denali, Fairbanks, Valdez and everything in between.

There’s a rarely-visited, dusty corner of the world where something magical happens. The place, which looks like Mars with its red rock landscape, is the Tatacoa Desert, in Colombia.

Fire has been known for its powerful renewal energy for centuries and is used in both ancient and modern rituals and ceremonies.

If researchers can reach it, it could tell them important things about the early people who built it.

Carved into soft stone cliffs, the ancient sandstone city of Petra was built in the 3rd century BC by the Nabataeans. These people were a nomadic Arab tribe–Bedouins–who roamed the Arabian Desert in search of pasture and water for their herds.

During Women's History Month, we're celebrating the achievements of women throughout history and spanning the globe. From the pages of The Explorers Journal, we're spotlighting four women who broke boundaries in exploration, research, and science. Let's dig into the past with Anna Roosevelt.

Way back in 1708, when the War of Spanish Succession was waging across Europe and Latin America to decide who should be the next King of Spain, three Spanish galleons set sail from Panama. They were loaded to the brim with gold, silver, emeralds, and other jewels that had been extracted from the mines of Bolivia – and were vital in financing Spain’s costly war against its enemies.

This underwater brine pool in the Gulf of Mexico is no vacation spot.

Don't be fooled by its fancy renovations—this hotel has a checkered history. Stream HORROR AT THE CECIL HOTEL only on discovery+.

I have come to Oaxaca to take part in the Día de los Muertos celebration. This region is clearly in the grip of the pandemic, preparations are well underway to welcome the spirits of the dead on the 31st of October and the 1st and 2nd of November.

From the pages of The Explorers Journal, Michael J. Manyak, M.D., FACS, underscores the importance of understanding how COVID-19 can affect certain wildlife populations, including the most vulnerable ones.

Commissioned in 1632, The Taj Mahal is one of the newest Seven Wonders of the World, and surprisingly no one knows who actually designed it.

Take a private tour of NYC’s American Museum of Natural History from home!

Adventure seekers travel from around the world to drive and cycle Bolivia's 43-mile "Death Road." Visit Discovery.com to learn what's so dangerous about it.