Plus, the island of ‘hobbit’-size humans
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY ISTOCK, GETTY IMAGES | | Summer is rushing by, but why not take the fam to see something new at Niagara Falls? Or search for fossils by horseback, hike to a gold mine, ride the Civil Rights trail, or swim at night with manta rays (above)?
Those are among 10 late-summer epic adventures that we’ve dug up for procrastinators. We love this line from writer Heather Greenwood Davis about a legendary Idaho bike ride: “When your kid’s foot hits the pedal on the Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes, your toughest job may be keeping up.”
See all 10 ideas here, including the innards of Niagara (pictured below). If you’re intrigued, hurry up. “The only real problem with summer,” Greenwood Davis writes, “is that it’s finite.”
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| | | Friends: Everyone needs them. That’s a key finding of a study of orphaned elephants in the wild. Young elephants who live among same-aged peers have lower stress levels than elephants who don’t, Natasha Daly reports. Photographer and Nat Geo Explorer Ami Vitale found these orphaned elephants (above) gathered at a watering hole at a sanctuary in northern Kenya. | | | |
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY BK ADVENTURE | | | Bioluminescence: The waters glow on these nighttime kayaking trips. Below the paddlers on Florida’s Indian River Lagoon (above) are tiny marvels in the waters around them. As writer Terry Ward discovers, “the very organism that produces bioluminescence can become harmful as soon as it blooms out of control.” | | | |
 | | For too long, a homogenous group—a group that does not look like me, or much of the world for that matter—has chosen Eurocentric top 10 lists. … Although those destinations are aptly beloved, if you rely on them alone for your bucket list, you’re leaving an entire world left to be explored. | | | | Jessica Nabongo | World traveler, author
From: The Catch Me if You Can: One Woman’s Journey to Every Country in the World | | |
| Looking for an island getaway? Photographer and pilot Jassen Todorov glimpsed East Brother Light Station while flying over San Francisco Bay. The station has been in operation since 1873 and was converted into a B&B. Todorov took this image during the golden hour from his single-engine Piper Warrior. For San Francisco travelers who prefer staying on land, here’s our story on a single-day walk across the city.
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