Dr. Rick Knecht, working with local Native corporation Qanirtuuq, Inc., has helped accumulate the world’s largest collection of Yup’ik pre-contact artifacts.

I’ve dived all over, but there’s something about cenotes that never gets old. I’m obsessed. Each one is like its own secret swimming hole. Some look small on the outside, but once you’re in, they open ...

Cenote Ik Kil, accessible during a day trip to Chichen Itza, and Cenote Samula near Valladolid, are among the best semi-open cenotes.

The Orthodox Christian tradition is strong in the tiny village of Kwethluk, Alaska. It recently welcomed clergy and pilgrims from around the world to canonize a local midwife and healer as a saint.