Lawrence is No. 9 thanks to its historic downtown, independent spirit and intriguing history. You’d be hard-pressed to find a nicer downtown avenue in the Midwest, but don’t be fooled by the boutiques ...

American Ghost Walks, a tour company that recently expanded to Southeast Alaska, combines the town’s history with the ...

These live theater towns offer Shakespeare, musicals, repertory seasons, and easier weekend trips than big-city theater ...

Tourist towns do not always become popular because they are the biggest name on the map. In many cases, they grow because travelers get tired of the crowds, high hotel rates, traffic jams, and long ...

The food is as famous as the furniture at The Shimmy Shack in Harahan Is Trump cutting down DC’s oldest cherry trees for golf course? The Kennedy Center was supposed to close this weekend. Instead, it ...

Many places in the United States dazzle even the most jaded travelers. Here are 25 of the nation’s most beautiful places.

There’s not many places in Greater Manchester where you can come face to face with a Brazilian stingray, stroll through a real-life film set and touch a piece of British Olympic history. All of this ...

The famous tale of young George Washington chopping down his father’s cherry tree and subsequent confession of “I cannot tell a lie” is just that — unverified, to say the least. The story first ...

Picture a patch of open ground in the middle of Kansas, roughly the size of a city lot. A meadowlark sings from the fence post at one end. Underneath the grass, a tangle of roots runs three feet deep, ...

From Mexico’s colorful Pueblo Mágicos to lakeside Costa Rican communities, these destinations prove you don’t need a big city to live well abroad. Lydia Mansel is a writer with more than eight years ...

If you’ve always dreamed of relocating to Latin America—even temporarily—but you’re not sold on living in a big metropolis like Mexico City, São Paulo, or Rio de Janeiro, you may want to consider ...