Jog your way around New York

New Yorkers are always on the run. Bankers rush from Wall Street to Midtown; harried shoppers tear through the narrow streets of NoLita...

Lucille Ball museum: Where you can love Lucy all over again

Even though she was born 100 years ago next month and her mega-hit TV show premiered 60 years ago this October, there remains a single truth...

New York: Taking the High Line? Manhattan's railway-to-greenway opens a new section

In the cramped island of Manhattan, every...

Washington, D.C.: Lottery for tickets to dedication of Martin Luther King. Jr. memorial

Philadelphia: City tour mixes murals and meals

Virginia: Hotel Monaco Alexandria marks Civil War history with $150 rooms

Virgin America sale: $149 each way from Los Angeles to East Coast

Missed out on a spring getaway? Virgin America has started a three-day sale on fares for flights in May. Prices are low, particularly $149...

A Civil War road trip

Ken Burns, whose landmark documentary on the Civil War established him as one of its quintessential authorities, thinks there's no better...

Events marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War

The remembrance of the 150th anniversary of the first shots of the Civil War at Ft. Sumter, S.C., underway until April 17 will give rise to...

Baseball tours are a hit with fans

"Road trip!"

Skee-ball is the name of game in Brooklyn

The odd coupling of tradition and trendiness that characterizes Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood is perhaps nowhere more evident than at...

New York's Erie Canal by boat

"Now I know what's meant by 'steering committee,'" the lock tender said with a laugh as the water, rushing through the sluice gates of...

New York's changing hotel skyline

Staying at a plush new hotel is possibly the last thing most Americans are thinking about this holiday season. Dreaming about, maybe,...

America's hometowns, found in New England

It's autumn in New England

Coastal Maine: Etched in the heart

The Olson House is hard to find, but once you arrive, there is no mistaking it. We made a few wrong turns at first, my brother and his wife,...

Up on the roof, where the drinks — and the Manhattan views — are fine

Heaven may be a little closer in New York these days, especially in Manhattan, where hotels' rooftop bars are among the best places to enjoy...

Best state fairs in the U.S.

Jim Kopel has been a big fan of state fairs since he was 10, when he exhibited his Chester White pigs at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines....

All aboard: America by Amtrak train

Comfortably settled in ClubAcela, the first-class lounge at New York's Penn Station, I considered the folder of Amtrak sleeping car...

Walking in Holden Caulfield's footsteps through Manhattan

Holden Caulfield was a flâneur. That's not generally how we think of him, this archetype of adolescent alienation, this detester...

Pop-up eateries a hit with New York's hip

When it comes to dining like a Gotham insider, you probably know all about food trucks and the secret speakeasies. But what about pop-up...