Americas

Life spills into the El Alto outdoor market of Puebla, where "present and past coexist and harmonize," says Francine Prose.

Savoring Puebla

Mexico's "City of Angels" is home to gilded churches, artistic treasures and a delectable culinary culture

Atlantic City

Atlantic City, N.J.

Not just a place to play

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Saint Louis, Missouri

A mother's letter

Alaska—from Denali to the stuffed bear on an Anchorage street, "plays havoc with your senses and turns everyday logic on its head," Pico Iyer decided.

Alaska's Great Wide Open

A land of silvery light and astonishing peaks, the country's largest state perpetuates the belief that anything is possible

"My memories of Worthington are ... colored by what went on with my father," says Tim O'Brien.

From Brooklyn to Worthington, Minnesota

Novelist Tim O'Brien revisits his past to come to terms with his rural hometown

The Freemark Abbey is a fully functional ghost winery located in the Napa Valley just north of St. Helena.

The Ghost Wineries of Napa Valley

In the peaks and valleys of California’s wine country, vinters remember the region’s rich history and rebuild for the future

Pico Iyer has authored several books, which deal with globalism and travel, Cuba and California, and, most recently, the Dalai Lama.

Pico Iyer on “The Great Wide Open”

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Photographer Robert Morrison’s Montana

The artist’s eye for the off-kilter and unusual offers a distinctive portrait of the West at the turn of the 20th century

Christopher Columbus carried ideas that boded ill for Indies natives.

Columbus' Confusion About the New World

The European discovery of America opened possibilities for those with eyes to see. But Columbus was not one of them

West King Street

Boone, N.C.

Living in the wilderness

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Oatmeal, Texas

A look at the Oatmeal Festival

Fleeing the clogged freeways of Los Angeles, Paul Theroux set forth into an America both lonelier and lovelier than the one he expected to find.

Taking the Great American Roadtrip

In the spirit of Kerouac and Steinbeck, the celebrated travel writer fulfills a childhood fantasy: to drive across his native land

Stately palms and winding walks imbue the Castleton Gardens with an aura of refinement.

Captain Bligh's Cursed Breadfruit

The biographer of William Bligh—he of the infamous mutiny on the Bounty—tracks him to Jamaica, still home to the versatile plant

On their first July 4 in America, Andrej (left) and Alec took in the horse races at the Gillespie County Fair.

Escaping the Iron Curtain

Photographer Sean Kernan followed Polish immigrants Andrej and Alec Bozek from an Austrian refugee camp to Texas

Established in 954 near the Italian Riviera, Seborga managed to maintain its independence because it was overlooked by the succession of rulers who took over this part of the world.

Micronations of the World

Explore these mock sovereign states fueled by local disputes, utopian idealism and the imaginations of a few eccentric individuals

Telluride, Colorado is Aspen's younger, less glamorous, not so naughty sister.

Telluride Thinks Out of the Box

The fiction writer cherishes her mountain town's anti-commercialism, as epitomized by the local swap stop, a regional landmark

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Reno, Nevada

An ideal (and scenic) location to raise a family

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Ormond By The Sea, Florida

Sleepy beach town filled with exotic wild life

Dover, Ohio

Dover, Ohio

Dover was and still is a quiet pond in a seething ocean

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Shreveport, Louisiana

Opening day at the farmer's market

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