Willis, Virginia sits in Floyd County, on the Blue Ridge Plateau near a landscape whose very name comes from the land itself: early settlers…
Maryville, Tennessee sits at the foot of Chilhowee Mountain, a ridge whose springs once drew visitors from around the world to a resort called…
Honaker, Virginia earned its unofficial title — the “Redbud Capital of the World” — from the thousands of native redbud trees that bloom pink…
Whitleyville, Tennessee earned a real distinction in 1950 when the Nashville Tennessean newspaper named it the number one community in all of Jackson County…
Deep in the woods of Chesterfield, New Hampshire, a sweeping stone staircase rises out of the forest floor, curves upward through a series of…
On a quiet stretch of Beehive Lane outside Crossville, Tennessee, there once stood a structure so improbable that visitors drove in from across the…
Nashville, Indiana became the heart of the “Art Colony of the Midwest” in 1907, when Impressionist painter T.C. Steele purchased 211 acres near Belmont…
Big Sandy, Tennessee owes its very existence to the railroad — an east-west rail line built through around 1860 turned this spot on the…
Amherst County, Virginia has been producing notable Americans since its formation in 1761, named for Lord Jeffery Amherst, the British commander who secured Canada…
Copper Hill, Virginia takes its name from small-scale copper, nickel, and cobalt mining operations that once worked these hills in the 19th and early…