A cook fires up your own hibachi plate to order, right inside an all-you-can-eat buffet. You pick the ingredients, hand them over, and wait for the sizzle.

Old-fashioned Italian baking is alive and well at this Connecticut bakery. Discover the handmade favorites and traditions that keep customers returning.

One Idaho burger spot has fry sauce on tap. Not in a packet, not in a little cup someone forgot to fill. On tap, like it deserves its own pipeline. Another place bottles its house sauce so you can buy ...

A third grader once needed a blacksmith for a school report, and a working Idaho smith picked up the phone. He made time in a busy schedule just to talk shop with a kid. That tells you a lot about the ...

A basalt mound beside the Clearwater River is said to be the heart of a monster. The Nez Perce creation story says Coyote cut it out, and people sprang from the pieces. I love that a highway pull-off ...

U.S. News named 10 California middle schools among the state's best, recognizing academic excellence, STEM programs, and creative learning.

Georgian khachapuri comes shaped like a little boat, filled with molten cheese, and often topped with an egg yolk you stir in at the table. I love that a bread can double as its own dish. That cheese ...

A pasta stuffed with pear sounds like a dare. At one family-run Italian kitchen in Florida, it ends up being one of the most talked-about plates on the table.

One of New Mexico’s longest-running Mexican restaurants keeps a piranha tank inside. I’m starting with this because I simply have to. Any lunch spot with toothy fish deserves top billing. It gets ...

An old train station in eastern Idaho now holds three floors of antiques, coins, gemstones, and knives. Yes, a train station. The trains moved on, and the treasure hunters moved in. Dozens of vendors ...

The house was brand new back then, built in 1879 for a celebrated Civil War general. It still stands today in Nebraska, filled with Victorian furniture and stories. The doorknobs even carry a rare ...

A palmetto leaf goes on top of every loaf of this bread before it hits the oven. That one old-school step gives the crust its famous split down the middle.