Most steamboats in the 1800s died young – just four or five years before fires, explosions, or river snags claimed them. Not the City of Hawkinsville. Built in Georgia in 1886, this tough wooden ...

In 1941, two men dug into Arizona’s past and found a gold mine of history. Emil Haury, with his Harvard degree, teamed up with Julian Hayden, who learned archaeology in the field. They cut through 12 ...

Michigan’s Great Lakes shoreline is buzzing again, with small towns and coastal cities seeing a wave of renewed energy. From lively festivals to charming harbors and scenic dunes, these destinations ...

California may be known for sunshine, beaches, and Hollywood glam, but the everyday habits of its residents can look completely unhinged to outsiders. To locals, though, these quirks are part of what ...

Colorado isn’t just mountains, beer, and ski passes—it’s a lifestyle with its own set of quirks. To Coloradans, these habits are part of the high-altitude charm, but to outsiders, they look like ...

Susan Nelson was just a mom with four kids when she saw bulldozers coming for the Santa Monica Mountains in 1964. Developers wanted golf courses where canyons stood. Roads would slice through hills.

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 ...

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 ...

In 1894, a man with a knife stood over dead buffalo in Yellowstone’s snowy Pelican Valley. Edgar Howell had just shot five bison when Army scout Felix Burgess skied across open ground and caught him ...

Fort Hancock held nuclear missiles just miles from Manhattan, and most New Yorkers never knew. From 1954 to 1974, this Sandy Hook base housed Nike Site NY-56, part of a secret ring of missile sites ...

California isn’t just a state—it’s practically its own planet, complete with microclimates, traffic-based time calculations, and an obsession with avocados. And just like the weather, the lingo shifts ...

What started as one man’s dream to save his fading hometown has grown into one of the most surprising attractions in the state. Gary Greff, a former school principal in Regent, began building massive ...