From immense cultural kingpins to astonishing natural spectacles, loveEXPLORING picks 67 of the world’s must-see marvels.

The mystery of the Moai stone heads has eluded onlookers for centuries — and now, researchers say they finally know how they got there. The statues, which were carved and placed on the South Pacific's ...

How Easter Island’s moai statues made it from the quarry to their final destinations has been a mystery for centuries. Archaeologists who analyzed the physics of the statues and their transport found ...

ROME, ITALY—According to a report in La Brújula Verde, the base of a sculpture that included a pig or boar was uncovered in central Crete, at the site of the powerful Bronze Age city-state of Gortyna.

When the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed on Easter Island in 1722, he was puzzled by how the indigenous islanders could have transported the hundreds of colossal stone statues he found studding ...

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. — Fernandina Beach's iconic Peg Leg Pete statue has been relocated to the Amelia Island Museum of History, the city announced on Thursday. "Although preservation efforts are ...

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. – Community members and crews with the City of Fernandina Beach woke up very early on Thursday to remove the beloved Peg Leg Pete statue, which was recently deemed unsafe for ...

For 50 years, a statue of Junipero Serra watched over cars cruising by on Interstate 280 in San Mateo County, but now it's gone. Caltrans removed the 26-foot-tall statue back in August. Since then, ...

Researchers say Easter Island's 4-ton moai "walked" across the island -- thanks to physics, ropes and a little ancient choreography -- no magic necessary. Binghamton University Turns out, the heads of ...

For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of archaeology’s longest-standing mysteries. How did an island society, remote ...

Archaeologists have confirmed that Easter Island’s iconic Moai statues were “walked” to their platforms using rope by “remarkably few” of the island’s indigenous Rapa Nui people, solving a ...