During the boom times, I launched a start-up so I could become rich. Years later, I’m still looking for my exit.

The life of Matsutaro Shoriki is a testament to how nothing can be contained. Everything spills into everything else.

It’s one of his many, many disappointments

How Christopher McCandless lost his way in the wilds

A growing subculture of adventure travelers are taking epic off-road trips in extremely wild rides. We sent an actual vagabond into their midst.

I didn’t expect that spending a week with a couple thousand lesbians on a cruise ship would push me to radically reconsider the future I’d planned for myself.

The Intercontinental in Kabul was Afghanistan's first luxury hotel. Once the site of legendary parties, the hotel is now in the hands of the Taliban, and their fighters are supposed to work with outsiders.

'The scores from the Great Wall Shuck Off may not have counted for anything, but the day has lingered heavily in shucker lore ever since. Yes, competitive oyster shuckers have lore. They have a culture.'

What’s an engineer’s worst nightmare? To realize that the supports he designed for an office tower are flawed—and hurricane season is approaching.

From Brazil to Egypt, Turkey to Hong Kong, the 2010s saw a series of huge public uprisings. Yet many of them led to the opposite of what they asked for. I spoke to more than 200 participants across 12 countries to find out why