Simon Parker is so enamored with off the beaten track America, that he has cycled across the nation twice. Here are 23 of his favorite small towns - and top tips for when in town.

While touring Sioux, O'Brien, Clay, Palo Alto, Hancock, Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Chickasaw, and Fayette counties, I was struck by ...

Two days after the Lager Beer Riot, on April 23, 1885, Chicago citizens convened at South Market Hall for a public meeting on “law and order.” Attendees appointed a committee to work with the city to ...

Violence and drunkenness often ruled towns far into the night after “justice ... capital punishment (there had been no hanging since 1830, before statehood) and because frontier Michigan had ...

A Texas village is voting to formally launch Starbase, a town devoted to Elon Musk’s company SpaceX.

It has been a rough patch for Mr. Musk, but he is about to realize a dream for SpaceX, its employees and for himself, his own ...

"The Stones Are Speaking" will air as part of the USA Film Festival on Sunday, April 27, at 4 p.m. at the Angelika Theater in ...

Not one but two Texas cities made a list of the 20 best cities in the South. Each year, Southern Living magazine publishes "The South's Best," a compilation of surveys voted on by the magazine's ...

Texas is a pretty great place to live — just ask Niche, which just placed three Texas towns in the top 20 of its recent rankings of the best cities to live in the U.S. The school and college ...