We rank the 13 Best Places to Visit in Costa Rica. See which places our readers like the best, and vote for your favorites.

The thriving bird colonies likely grew over several decades because local shepherds had temporarily eliminated pumas ...

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

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The coastal prairie gives way to a pygmy forest, where centuries-old trees stand no taller than you. It’s like stumbling into ...

A Florida governor in the early 1900s saw potential for the Everglades land but only if it was drained of its water.

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The trip starts on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, in the town of Barra de Parismina, at the base of Tortuguero National Park, known as a nesting ground for leatherback turtles. It ends in ...

The move bans oil and gas drilling, mining, and other industrial activities on vast swaths of public land in California.