Flipboard 2025 Destinations

Across the United States, famous hiking trails pass places shaped by fatal falls, flash floods, eruptions, scary encounters, forced removals, and disasters.

Not every family stopped at every one of these places, but certain restaurant names became fixtures of American car travel in the 1970s.

Some American habits can look excessive, overly casual, or just plain strange when visitors first encounter them. These habits are easy to tease until it’s time to give them up.

Americans have 50 states to choose from without ever leaving the country, but their trips are far from evenly distributed. Warm beaches, famous cities, theme parks, mountains, family visits, and easy road trips repeatedly pull travelers toward a relatively small group of states. Recent domestic travel data shows that California, Florida, Texas, and New York remain particularly powerful magnets. A few less obvious states also attract enormous numbers of trips every year.

Long before Florida beaches and Las Vegas casinos became shorthand for an American getaway, vacationers were already packing trunks for famous resort towns scattered across the country. Some promised healing mineral water, others offered cool mountain air, oceanfront hotels, elaborate amusement parks, or the chance to mingle with society’s wealthiest families. These destinations helped create American vacation culture generations before commercial air travel made warmer destinations easier to reach.

Every corner of Canada has stories that become stranger the longer you listen. From a demon-haunted flying canoe to a hotel proprietor who supposedly never checked out, these legends are woven into the places that still tell them.

From the Grand Canyon to the Canadian Arctic, these famous wilderness disappearances still inspire debate over what really happened.

Californians looking for ocean views without million-dollar home prices have plenty of options, from affordable U.S. coasts to beaches abroad.

Explore the most mysterious place in every Canadian province, from UFO sightings and lake monsters to phantom ships, lost treasure, twisted forests, and unexplained events across Canada.