6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (664+ words) Madrid, New Mexico, sits about 27 miles from Santa Fe, yet it feels far removed from the city’s polished galleries and museum crowds. This former coal-mining town was largely abandoned after the mines declined, then remade by artists beginning in the…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (758+ words) Nearly 300 homes in Marblehead’s historic district predate the American Revolution. That’s the reason to come. This Massachusetts town feels less like a museum than a working harbor where salt air slips between old wooden houses. Marblehead sits about 18 miles northeast…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (631+ words) Two utopias, one town, and both of them tried before the Civil War. That’s the improbable record of New Harmony, a quiet village on the Wabash River in southwest Indiana. And you can still walk the streets where both experiments…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (635+ words) The first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory isn’t in Cincinnati or Cleveland. It’s a river town of about 14,500 people in the far southeast corner of Ohio, roughly two hours from Pittsburgh. Marietta sits at the point where the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (662+ words) Thomas, West Virginia, is a small mountain town where the last mine closed in 1956. The work did not come back. Art, music, and access to the Allegheny Mountains did, which gives this former coal town a sharper second act than…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago   (752+ words) Folly Beach earns its “Edge of America” nickname before you’ve even found a parking space. This public beach town sits on Folly Island, south of downtown Charleston, where the road gives way to Atlantic sand and an intentionally loose beach…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (693+ words) Virginia City, Montana, has only 219 residents, yet it once ran the Montana Territory. From 1865 to 1875, this compact town was its capital, a role that feels almost absurd when you stand on its wooden sidewalks today. People still live here, and…...