"Do you think much about dirt? Most people don't—but if you garden, you should," writes Margie Siegal. Here's how to get to ...

Here are nearly 50 events in the Ozarks to check out this October. When: Oct. 3-4, 10-11, 17-18, 24-25, 31 Where: Boone's BBQ ...

That’s the magic of Petersen Rock Garden, folks, a delightfully bizarre roadside attraction near Redmond that proves one person’s rock collection is another person’s wonderland.

Welcome to Petersen Rock Garden, a hidden Oregon treasure that feels like stepping into the fever dream of a geology-obsessed wizard. The Central Oregon landscape is already dramatic—volcanic peaks, ...

The writer Tristan Gooley describes how a pair of familiar constellations can help a person navigate in darkness when other ...

Rockhounding is a popular activity, but digging through the rules of where you can go and what you can keep isn't much fun.

The stone, first discovered in Russia in the 1800s, is rarely found outside a handful of places such as the Ural Mountains, ...

A Carthage man may have unearthed one of the world’s rarest gemstones not in a mine, but in his own front yard.

A Carthage man may have unearthed one of the rarest gemstones in the world — not in a mine, but in his own front yard. Robert ...

White, of Paoli, Indiana, made the discovery in the Canary Hill area of the Murfreesboro park. It’s a spot he was referred to on his first day there. He had been dry sifting throughout the day and ...

A Carthage man may have unearthed one of the rarest gemstones in the world — not in a mine, but in his own front yard.