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Category: TRAVELING
What’s behind all those tiny doors in Atlanta? Their creator wants you to use your imagination
I find the first one by the ticket booth at Fox Theatre, an iconic venue for concerts and other performing […]
There’s a temple modeled after the Taj Mahal hidden in Southern California’s mountains
Entering the foothills of California’s rugged San Bernardino Mountains, the concrete jungle disappears in the rearview mirror as my car […]
Meet the pun-loving ‘pie-o-neer’ who traded the big city for New Mexico’s tiny Pie Town
One of the joys of a road trip is passing by a town and wondering how it got its name. […]
Above an ancient underground sea in West Virginia, a family reclaims their salty—and complicated—heritage
The salt came first. Even before coal mines pockmarked West Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains, 19th-century pioneers dug wells into a 400-million-year-old […]
Trailblazers and suffragettes: A journey through Central New York’s progressive past
A century and a half ago, Central New York was a hotspot for political and social reform movements. A sizable […]
California tribal ranger ‘Mountain Bob’ looks back on 20 years of solitude
Just south of downtown Palm Springs, the rugged San Jacinto Mountains that fringe the city drop abruptly to the desert […]
Among empty city streets, New Yorkers are showing signs of resilience and creativity
New Yorkers love to complain about tourists who crowd Times Square, block the bike lane on the Brooklyn Bridge, or […]
Famous Smoky Mountain moonshiner ‘Digger’ Manes wants to revitalize his tiny Tennessee hometown
I meet Eric Manes inside Fruit Jar Alley, his wife’s clothing boutique in the sleepy Smoky Mountain town of Newport, […]
‘We the people saved Route 66’: How one man’s dedication is keeping the Mother Road alive
For now, Seligman, Arizona, is quiet. The gleaming tour buses shuttling visitors from all over the world into town have […]