When most people imagine South Carolina, they think of its southern hospitality, sunny beaches, and delicious southern cooking. However, the state also has its fair share of surprises. It claims the world's smallest police station, hosts festivals dedicated to peaches...
The strongest downtowns are recognizable before anyone reads the town name. Galena has blocks of 19th-century brick storefronts below steep hills. Jim Thorpe's commercial district sits in a narrow valley crowded with Victorian architecture. In Lake Placid, Main Street...
Colorado is well known for the glitz of Aspen, the picturesque views of Telluride and the champagne powder snow of Steamboat, but popular resort destinations in the Centennial State can bring big crowds and big price tags. Luckily, Colorado is packed with lesser-known...
Wyoming has a way of shrinking your worries down to the size of a trailhead. The towns that do it best are the small ones. A weekend there might mean soaking in a mineral spring or catching a bluegrass jam. Cody keeps its Wild West history alive on the street every...
These national parks in the U.S. offer thoughtful tools and adaptations for visitors with a wide variety of disabilities. As natural treasures on public land, national parks should theoretically be available to everyone. But people with disabilities—whether those that...
Desert landscaping brings a set of challenges that gardeners in more verdant regions don't have to consider. Low rainfall totals limit your choices to drought-tolerant plants and hardscaping with rocks, patios, or pavers, unless you have the resources for...
Almost every town on this list exists because somebody got off a boat. Swiss dairymen, Cornish miners, Norwegian churchgoers, Swedish fishermen, and a family of brothers who happened to run a circus all came to Wisconsin by water, and they built the places their...
New Mexico's small towns run on adobe and old plazas. Some sit in mountain valleys. Others cluster around desert hot springs. Each keeps its own version of the state's Native and Spanish layers close at hand. These nine hold their own. Truth Or Consequences Truth or...
A flash flood tore Silver City's main street out of the ground in 1895. The town rebuilt one block over and left the hole alone. Bullard Street has faced that canyon ever since. Main streets across New Mexico hold intriguing histories. Cloudcroft sits at 8,676 feet...
The parking lot was mostly empty when a group of volunteers from Zion Lutheran Church in Rapid City rolled into Blessed Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Sturgis, South Dakota, at 7 a.m. Fog hung from the tops of the pine trees like a delicate tablecloth. The air was cool...