If you’re more interested in seeking out abandoned nuclear bunkers than sipping tropical drinks out of coconuts while on vacation, Nerdy Day Trips is here to help you live out your geeky trips down someone else’s memory lane...

You’re skiing down black diamonds at Squaw Valley with Olmypic Gold Medalist Jonny Moseley, riding waves with Big Wave Surf Champion Maya Gabeira, and cooking and dining with celebrity chef Michael Mina. Yeah, life’s good. Zozi is an adventure-filled tech travel company that’s dishing up once-in-a-lifetime experiences at very reasonable prices. For less than the cost of a cross-country flight you can hang with “Zozi Gurus” who will teach you the tricks of their trades.

Magpie’s founder Huong Tran had no clue what the “Super Bloom” was, or even where Death Valley was, but when her friend Vannie invited her to join her on a journey to head to the hottest, driest place on earth, she piled into a van at midnight for a whirlwind weekend trip. To celebrate #TravelThrowback, Huong is sharing photos from her getaway to inspire other women to be spontaneous and jump on opportunities like seeing a rare bloom of Desert Gold flowers blanket the Valley.

Elon Musk’s Hyperloop, the superfast transportation system to get you from point A to point B in less time than it takes to go through an airport security check line would be amazing if it ever comes to fruition. To hop on over from foggy San Francisco and spend a day at the sunny beaches of SoCal, then make it home in time for dinner would be ideal. So as we’re on the brink of supercharged modes of transportation becoming a part of everyday life, let’s take a step back and look at a few slow a

We’re teaming up with Translate.com to bring you the Top 10 useful phrases for female travelers. Translate.com recommended the phrases, and Magpie broke them down to show you scenarios when the phrases would come in handy. When you’re ready for your next adventure, go to Magpie to find a community of female travelers full of dream trip tips, and to Translate.com to translate these practical phrases to the language of any region around the world.

Western Europe may have started the craze of Christmas Markets back in the late Middle Ages, but now cities and towns throughout the world have adopted the traditions of Germany, Austria, Italy and France. Now you can sip hot mulled wine and Eirpunsch, a concoction that mixes alcohol with eggs, while gazing at Nativity scenes, Nutcracker displays and millions of dazzling lights. These street markets occur during the four weeks of Advent and the most famous ones are in the Christmas crazy German

I had a trip all planned out…for Mexico. I was going to go on my first solo trip, stay in the lovely town of Oaxaca, take day trips from there to visit the ruins of Monte Alban and the surrounding villages, take cooking classes in the “land of the seven moles,” try grilled grasshoppers, drink mezcal, stay in hostels that I had pre-booked and catch a bus down to the beach. I was planning the trip around the Dia de los Muertos festivities. I wanted to see the elaborate altars and cemeteries covered in candles and offerings. I wanted to capture on camera the haunting visions that I had imagined would appear to me.

To celebrate the release of our Resort wallpaper for your virtual webroom, we thought we’d take you around the world to check out some jaw-dropping resorts. From Santorini to Singapore, the architecture, natural beauty, views and pools make us want to pack our sunscreen and jet off to lounge around at these stunning retreats. Fiber-optic lit pools that reflect the stars in the sky make Huvafen Fushi in the Maldives an extraordinary escape from your everyday worries. While you’re waiting for the

Time to put down the textbooks and celebrate the summer! Now that school’s almost out, we’ve rounded up some of the hottest international beach parties where you can dance, enjoy a few cold cold drinks, and many memorable days and nights on sandy shores. 8 dj’s, live percussions, fireworks, free coconut juice to mix with your rum – just shake the palm trees Exclusive party village on a beautiful private beach with over 3,000 people, BBQ’s, headline dj’s, awesome atmosphere One of the biggest

The countdown is on! If you haven’t made plans yet to celebrate New Year’s Eve, here are some of the best parties and celebrations around the globe. From explosive fireworks to timeless traditions to dj’s that will have you dancing well into the wee hours of 2014, this is where you want to be! Join two million revelers on Copacabana Beach for the Iemanja Festival, a time when devotees of the Umbanda African-Brazilian religion pay homage to the goddess of the sea by offering flowers that they se

SHARK VALLEY, Fla.— When you were a child, you probably never listened to the old folks who would tell you to be careful of bumps in the road when riding a bike, because the bumps always made bike riding so much fun. In childhood, those bumps were big branches and broken chunks of sidewalk you would grasp your handlebars and trample over. At Shark Valley on the northern border of Everglades National Park, those bumps are lazy all