Carving jack-o'-lanterns started long before the legend of the Headless Horseman. NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Cindy Ott, author of "Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon." ...

A different type of jack-o’-lantern to look for this time of year, one that has remained unchanged for millennia, and, in my ...

Prepare to be wowed by the Jack-o-Lantern Spectacular at the Minnesota Zoo. We go behind the scenes to meet the crew carving ...

Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...

Pumpkins are now one of the most recognizable symbols of Halloween, but they weren’t used as jack-o’-lanterns until the mid-19th century. How did pumpkins go from being an ordinary squash to a ...

The theme for the Jack O'Lantern Spectacular is "Jack's Pun-King Trail – A Trailway of Wordplay" and features thousands of hand-carved pumpkins.