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.

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 ...

Washington, DC has expanded its snow removal approach by placing more responsibility on property owners and residents. Instead of relying primarily on city crews, sidewalks and some secondary areas ...

Northwest Arkansas’ surprising backbone 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thinking about Maryland? Don’t. The Old Line State will trap you with steamed blue crabs, Chesapeake sunsets, and more charm than you bargained for. This list is supposed to warn you away—but really, ...

In 1539, a Moroccan slave named Estevanico met his end at Hawikuh, a Zuni pueblo in what is now New Mexico. He had lived through the failed Narváez trek of 1527, then spent eight years crossing the ...