Kentucky has a waterfall that makes rainbows at night. Not a trick, not a light show, just water and moonlight doing something that happens in only one other place on earth. Cumberland Falls drops 68 ...

Every Saturday morning in Kahului, more than 200 vendors spread out across the parking lot of the University of Hawaii Maui College, and thousands of people show up to walk the rows. Locals. Visitors.

Most people picture Oklahoma as flat and dry. Lake Tenkiller will change that. Tucked into the Ozark foothills of eastern Oklahoma, this 12,900-acre reservoir sits inside a landscape of rocky bluffs ...

Pennsylvania runs from the skyscrapers of Philadelphia to the quiet farms of Lancaster County, with mountains, gorges, and small towns filling in everything between. The state has 124 parks spread ...

Northeastern California does not get the attention it deserves. Out in Lassen County, a 25.4-mile trail follows the Susan River through a canyon lined with rock outcrops, pine forests, and mountain ...

You can drive it in an hour. But if you do, you’ll miss the point. The Selma to Montgomery March Byway follows U.S. Highway 80 for 54 miles across central Alabama, tracing the exact route where ...

You probably wouldn’t guess that one of the most talked-about trail systems in the country runs through a stretch of Northwest Arkansas. The Razorback Regional Greenway covers 40 paved miles from ...

In summer 1950, polio hit tiny Wytheville, Virginia with brutal force. The first case struck 20-month-old Johnny Seccafico in late June. Soon after, the town of just 5,500 people had 184 cases—one in ...

North Dakota hides a $6 billion Cold War relic that lived for just one day. In 1970, workers began building the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex near Nekoma – a massive concrete pyramid with ...

Steven Udvar-Hazy saw planes as freedom in 1950s Communist Hungary. As a boy, he built model aircraft from matchsticks and gum while Stalin’s portrait hung in his classroom. Then in 1958, his family ...

Stone Mountain wasn’t just a big rock in Georgia. It was the heart of an empire. In 1887, the Venable brothers bought this mountain for $48,000 and changed American building forever. Soon, their ...

In 1907, a doctor named T. W. Hardison had a simple idea that changed Arkansas forever. While hiking Petit Jean Mountain with lumber bosses who said the land was too hard to log, Hardison thought: why ...