Green Mountain West Ridge Trail, Boulder 2. Dinosaur Ridge Trail, Morrison 3. Devil’s Backbone Wild Loop, Loveland—and more.

Nedzad Avdic stood on a gravel plateau with four men and boys with their hands tied behind their backs, preparing for death.

William Carney didn’t just carry the flag at Fort Wagner—he hauled the soul of a nation on his back through a storm of lead, and never let it fall.

When John Warmington first began diving the reefs outside his home in Vanuatu’s Havannah Harbor a decade ago, the coral rose ...