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 ...

In the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania sits a town that looks like it belongs in the Alps. Jim Thorpe, formerly called Mauch Chunk (meaning ‘Sleeping Bear’ in the Lenni Lenape language), got its new ...

New Mexico: land of enchantment, alien sightings, green chile worship, and— believe it or not—laws that are just as offbeat as a Roswell souvenir shop. From camel restrictions to courtroom footwear ...

President Gerald Ford signed Public Law 94-106 on October 7, 1975. This law required all military academies to accept qualified women starting the next year. The Coast Guard Academy had already let ...

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 ...

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore reveals a sacred world most visitors never see. For thousands of years, the Ojibwe people saw these colorful cliffs not as pretty scenery but as living beings filled ...

Welcome to the 19th-century French Quarter shop where modern U.S. pharmacy was born. Back in 1816, when snake oil and magic potions ruled, Louis Dufilho Jr. became the first guy in America to pass a ...

Ohio: the Buckeye State, where college football is a religion, the weather can’t make up its mind, and the legal code is just as unpredictable. From outlawed fish intoxication to a genuine fear of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Huntington Beach has been a surf town for more than a century, and the pier at the end of Main Street is where it all comes together. The concrete deck reaches 1,850 feet into the Pacific, one of the ...

Georgia slang is part traffic report, part tailgate chant, and part “meet me by that giant roadside chicken.” If these sound normal, you didn’t just visit—you’ve sprinted Peachtree on the Fourth and ...