TREASURED COLLECTIONS: Kids are famously apt to collect anything, from dolls to their older brother's CD collection to bits of string. But there's one object pretty much anyone under the age of ten ...

CRYSTAL PARK, Mont. — Molten granite formed the Pioneer Mountain Range in southwest Montana about 72-million years ago. As the granite cooled, water carried quartz and other minerals through the rocks ...

Pala, Calif. — MY friend Carolyn and I wanted to become gold-diggers. But because we couldn’t find a goldmine within driving distance, we decided to become gem-diggers instead. We headed for the Pala ...

For this trip, don't leave home without water, detailed roadmaps, sunscreen, hats, a picnic lunch and cash – there are very few services at these destinations. There are many reasons why Idaho is ...

Armed with pickaxes on a rural fossicking property in Queensland, Kathy Bone's young grandchildren are on the hunt for mysterious "thunder eggs". The rocks were formed in lava gas bubbles more than ...