Articles by Shoshi Parks

Cape Breton’s cliffside scenery and old-world Celtic traditions rival those of Scotland.

Every year, scores of boaters travel the 6,000-mile route around the Eastern United States. Why do they do it?

Overcoming threats to cease-and-desist, Las Vegas’s iconic Elvis weddings live on.

The ‘Isle of Demons' was said to be overrun with ghosts and ghouls.

Their syrupy death is medicinal for humans, too.

Experts estimate some 50,000 people are buried beneath the sprawling metropolis.

And it's all thanks to this mother-daughter dream team.

At the Moriyama City Firefly Forest Museum, nurturing Genji fireflies comes with homework.

Researchers are rushing to document the Indigenous art before it is lost to time and climate change.

Archaeologists believe jewelry made from the bugs was a coveted status symbol 2,000 years ago.

What's it like to "very probably" witness extinction?

In 17th-century Germany, a "schandmaske" was the prescribed punishment for social transgression.

Beavers can reshape the North American ecosystem—if we let them.

More than 3,000 years ago, the birds appeared in unexpected places.

Denied the free meals of their Irish counterparts, Chinese laborers learned to thrive on their own.

Yes, orcas have viral cultural trends, too.

We don't know if they'll ever sing their old songs again.

How the once-ubiquitous convenience became a rare museum piece.

The irreverent, all-male E Clampus Vitus commemorates overlooked people and events.

Without them, the state's lucrative wine grape crop could be gobbled up by smaller birds.

Isabella Abbott, the first native Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science, rewrote the book on her beloved limu.

Cars are annihilating the tiny amphibians.

These ancient guardians of the traditional nomadic way of life are making a comeback.

An author's end-game expertise has never been more timely.