This sleepy North Carolina river town feels calm and charming today, but its quiet streets still carry whispers of an old ...

Abingdon is one of the oldest towns in Virginia, and it wears its age like a badge of honor. This place has been around since ...

Despite the name, the New River Gorge is home to one of the oldest rivers in the world.The stunning views you'll find along ...

The Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial, a burial ground for more than 1,700 people who escaped slavery, stands alone on a plot of land on the outskirts of historic Old Town Alexandria.

From hidden roadside pits to local legends, I explored small-town smokehouses in Virginia, and half were simply unforgettable ...

Two decades after it opened, the mall predicted to be a “new downtown” in North Raleigh limps along, a ghost town with an ...

Like the iconic New River Gorge Bridge towering 850 feet above, the one-lane Tunney Hunsaker Bridge was a legend in its own time. When it opened to traffic in 1889, the 420-foot wrought iron truss ...

The rental market here hasn’t lost its collective mind like in most of America. A one-bedroom apartment for $900 monthly ...

Virginia has more ghost towns than many realize, including former rail, canal, and coastal communities that are now abandoned but still accessible.

A middle-aged man makes peace with his childhood trauma in Perrotta’s stellar latest (after Tracy Flick Can’t Win). Accomplished novelist Jimmy Perrini looks back on his youth in bucolic Creamwood, ...