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...
Spotting a grizzly bear in the wild is an adrenaline-inducing experience. After all, these large bears are one of nature’s most powerful predators. Grizzlies typically avoid people, yet hikers sometimes encounter them in parts of North America where big populations...
From railroad hubs and river towns to hard-fought votes and alleged bribes, America's state capitals took wildly different paths to power. Today, in 17 states, the capital is also the most populous city. Phoenix, the nation's most populous state capital, has more than...
A house on California's redwood coast usually costs a fortune. In Crescent City, the typical one runs about $368,000. Bristol sits in the Virginia mountains with home values near $207,000. Every town here comes in under the national average home value of $372,000....
Yellowstone National Park is one of the last places in the United States where American bison still roam as they did centuries ago. Seeing hundreds of these huge animals lumber across the valleys is one of the park’s most famous sights. Casually known as buffalo by...
Cowboys first rode wild broncs down the main street of Montana's Wolf Point in 1915. That rodeo still runs every July. A long drive from any interstate hub will get you there. The reward is a stretch of the state where copper-mine ruins and working grain elevators...