A historic lodge where a famous U.S. President stayed is set in the heart of an ancient forest in the Olympic Peninsula of ...

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article erroneously said that the university had purchased the land of Lake Forest in 1947 ... Pushing away the dirt of this ridge exposes ancient cement — a ...

covered in rubble and damaged by ancient rockfalls. The bottom of the shaft led to a second, even bigger cavern, inside of which were jammed more than a hundred coffins of different styles and sizes.

The current 346 square miles of Petrified Forest open a window on an environment more than 200 million years old, one radically different from today's grassland. Where you now see ravens soaring ...