Beads, balls and Moon Pies: Mardi Gras in Mobile, Ala.

Think Mardi Gras and your thoughts are apt to turn to New Orleans, where the celebration of the last day before Lent gives new meaning to...

Disney World rethinks Fantasyland makeover plans for 2012

Walt Disney World...

Super Bowl XLV: Tackle the host city using smartphone apps

Heading for Super Bowl XLV in Arlington, Texas, on Feb. 6?  The City of Arlington, in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, is offering free...

Fort Mose: In St. Augustine, Fla., a celebration of black history

"One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to

Washington, D.C.: Phillips Collection turns 90 with a year of special events

The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., will mark its 90th year with free admission Saturday and Sunday -- and more than one birthday...

Orlando Thrill Park unveils 14 rides for planned Florida amusement park

Miami Beach deal: Dive into free night at hotel where Esther Williams swam

Hollywood water queen Esther Williams swam...

Have a merry Southern Christmas at Georgia's Lake Lanier Island Resort

LAKE LANIER ISLANDS, Ga. — Ho, ho, ho! Merry Christmas from Georgia's "Hamptons" with a Southern accent: Lake Lanier Islands.

In Blue Ridge Mountains, autumn hues are wedded with history

When the Blue Ridge Parkway beckons me, I answer, especially in autumn, when I long for its twists and turns, its waterfalls, natural...

Racing thrills with the Daytona 500 Experience

Henry Ford gets the credit for one of the most famous — and oldest — quotes about competitiveness among automobile drivers:...

Charleston, S.C., is a food lover's paradise

Our waiter was staring at us in disbelief. Finally, he leaned forward and, ever so politely, asked my husband to repeat himself.

Tree-lined history on Edisto Island, S.C.

Silvery Spanish moss embraces giant live oaks that line the road, touching overhead to create a cathedral ceiling. Their lacy patterns...

New Orleans' French Quarter: A novel place, still

Despite its name, Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" isn't a play so much about a geographic destination — Desire Street...

National World War II Museum in New Orleans salutes the Greatest Generation

Why, of all places, is the National World War II Museum in this sultry Gulf Coast port, better known for its jazz, party beads and...

Off of Virginia, an annual pony swim

"'Course it's a legend. But legends be the only stories as is true."

Along the Gulf Coast, trying to survive the oil spill

"Hey, got any extra Jimmy Buffett tickets?"

Gulf beach resorts persist in the face of the oil spill

The Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and western Florida Panhandle beaches affected by the oil spill are as different as Venice, Laguna and...

Oil spill hasn't chilled New Orleans seafood restaurants

New Orleanians take their seafood seriously. So seriously, in fact, that it was front-page news last month when the French Quarter's P&J...;

A visit to Mark Twain's Hannibal, Mo.

It was long after dark when Henry Sweets brought me to Hannibal's Old Baptist Cemetery, "a graveyard of the old-fashioned Western kind."

A steam-powered train trip into West Virginia's past

At the old mill town of Cass, nestled deep in a remote holler of West Virginia, coal smoke and history hang in the air.