Tag: travel

The Emmy winner reflects on trips to the city and its many layers of history, from waterfront landmarks to a groundbreaking new museum.

Today, Biloxi known for its towering casino resorts offering endless entertainment and round-the-clock gambling, but you needn’t be a high roller to enjoy this coastal community. Known as the Seafood Capital of the World in the early 1900s, the city is brimming with fresh-catch restaurants and eager to share its historic schooners and nautical instruments at the Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum.

With its modern facade, chic interior design, sexy speakeasy, and high-end surf and turf restaurant, it’s hard to believe that the building housing the Trail Hotel was once a Holiday Inn.

Highly walkable and populated with restaurants, galleries, and museums, Paducah’s verve far exceeds the sum of its relatively small population. Today, the town is home to not only world-renowned quilters, but also James Beard–nominated chefs, visual artists of nearly every medium, and a tight-knit community supporting them.

One year on a family visit to Asheville, Lizzie Whitcher fell in love with Biltmore—so much so that she studied floriculture at Texas A&M with hopes of eventually working at the estate. Soon after, she made that dream a reality. In addition to managing decor for events, her team of 10 designers directs the installation of more than 100 trees, hundreds of thousands of lights, and thousands of feet of garland for Christmas at Biltmore.

The thunderous roar of fighter jets is nothing unusual in Pensacola, Florida, known as the “Cradle of Aviation.” Founded in 1914, Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola was the first of its kind in the United States, marking the beginning of formal schooling for aviators.

Jekyll Island’s modern history is among the most storied in the South. Since General James Oglethorpe colonized it in 1733, the island has experienced four distinct periods: the Colonial Era, the Plantation Era, the Club Era, and the State Era. Here’s a look at six people across the eras who played major roles in creating the Jekyll Island now enjoyed by more than 3 million visitors a year.

The Omni Grove Park Inn & Spa welcomed back the National Gingerbread Competition this year after Hurricane Helene forced a cancellation in 2024. The celebrated holiday tradition returned stronger than ever, with 235 entries representing 25 states across the country—the most in the event's history.

According to Executive Chef Jacob Stull, the most popular appetizer at Rêve, Birmingham, Alabama’s first-ever tasting menu restaurant, was inspired by a late-night Southern favorite: the “scattered, smothered, and covered” hash browns at Waffle House.