Eliza Thornton

Few people expect to find a fairy-tale canyon in northeastern Oklahoma, but this park earned a Narnia nickname…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 17

Southern Utah road trips deliver legendary scenery, but the best stops are usually the ones nobody planned for.…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 16

Roadside stops along Route 66 come in all shapes, but this one in Arizona hits differently. The green…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 16

Catfish cooked right is practically an art form in the South, and Arkansas takes it seriously. There is…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 16

There is a sugar shack in southern New Hampshire where a man named Ben started tapping trees at…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 15

There is something about the smell of garlic, slow-cooked tomato, and fresh pasta that takes you somewhere else…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 15

The housing numbers in this Iowa prairie town stop people mid-scroll. First-timers assume there is a catch. There…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 14

Texas is hosting more World Cup matches than any other state this summer, and the neighborhoods surrounding all…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 14

What if the best place to retire in the entire country turned out to be a small Kentucky…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 14

Remember pulling into a drive-in on a hot summer night, the neon buzzing, the smell of something sweet…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 14

Hot roast beef smothered in homemade gravy on soft white bread. Real mashed potatoes made from scratch every…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 13

From Asylum To Attraction, The Remarkable Origin Story Few buildings carry as much story per square foot as…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 13

Three days of fermentation before the dough ever sees the oven. Ninety seconds of cooking at nearly 910…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 12

Hot, spiced blue crabs piled right on the paper-covered table in front of you. Mallets ready. Nobody talking…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 12

World Cup fever is sweeping the country, and New Jersey is turning it up to an entirely different…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 12

West Virginia mountain towns do not always announce themselves. This one lets the forest do the talking. A…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 11

South Carolina takes its seafood seriously, and Friday nights across the state are living proof of that. From…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 11

Connecticut does not need to shout about its Italian food. The restaurants do the talking on their own.…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 11

Chicago takes its pan pizza seriously, and this West Town spot has been earning global recognition since it…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 11

Ready to eat your way across Connecticut? The sandwiches here are not quiet about what they do. They…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 11

West Virginia has a lake that people call the Little Bahamas of the East, and the first time…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 10

Skeptics walk into this one and leave making plans to come back before the week is out. An…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 10

Road food on California’s rugged north coast does not get better than this. Picture a century-old general store…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 10

Game day in Georgia starts before you ever reach the gate. Atlanta feeds people well, and the blocks…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 9

Ribs smoked over pecan wood. Three-time Grand Champions at the biggest BBQ contest in the world. A roadside…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 9

This is the Idaho lake that should be on every road trip list this summer, and somehow it…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 9

The kind of place that leaves people wondering why it took them so long to visit. Ten miles…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 8

What if Montana had been hiding one of the most jaw-dropping underground worlds in the entire Northwest, right…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 8

The kind of place that wins people over fast usually has one big thing going for it. This…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 7

What do Iowa breakfast regulars agree on? Almost nothing, except this. When a plain little diner closes its…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 7

Comfort food the way it used to taste before shortcuts became the norm. Kentucky knows how to do…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 7

Crab legs piled high, a 70-plus item buffet, and a dining room that fits 400 hungry people. North…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 7

Have you heard about this Pittsburgh Italian restaurant? People are booking tables months out and it is not…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 6

Louisiana knows how to feed people, and there is one roadside spot between two lakes that has been…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 6

Houston keeps surprising people with buffets that overdeliver. This one on Westheimer pulls off crab legs, made-to-order hibachi,…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 5

Alabama does not always get the loudest table at the Southern food conversation. But pull up to this…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 5

Real Kansas BBQ does not need a billboard. It needs a smoker, a pitmaster who shows up every…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 5

Georgia has a donut shop that opens at four in the morning and still runs out of things…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 4

Dungeness crab, fresh-shucked oysters, and Elliott Bay stretching out beyond floor-to-ceiling windows. Washington state has been holding out…

By Eliza Thornton · Jun 4