Extreme Sports

A home for skateboarders with sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean in Morocco.

This spectacular fault escarpment, a popular hang-glider launch point, extends some 30 miles long and towers about 2,500 feet over the valley floors to the west.

The largest ski jump in the Western Hemisphere hasn't hosted skiers in decades.

This medieval footbridge in the Swiss Alps is known to attract cliff-jumping daredevils.

Near the summit of Mount Washington, a stone monument remembers a life lost to one of the mountain's infamous storms.

If James Bond bungee-jumped off the side of a 720-foot dam, would you do it too?

A plaque marks the former home of Käthe Paulus, an aerial acrobat who invented the modern folding parachute.

On a stretch of Danish coast known as "Cold Hawaii," this fishing village has become a surfing town.

One of the highest mountain passes in Europe has been ranked among the best driving roads in the world.

This Welsh hotel is the spiritual home of the British 1953 Everest expedition, the first successful ascent of Mount Everest.

A climbing route in the mountains of Italy’s Dolomites, built for soldiers during World War I.