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If a visitor to the Louvre walked up to the Mona Lisa with a can of spray paint, they’d be immediately tackled by security guards. But what about a vandal approaching a rock art panel, dating back 1,…

Alpena, whose inspiration is on the shore of Lake Huron in Michigan. | Colleen MiniukCoastal cities and towns are sometimes known for their charming lighthouses, which…

Editor’s Note: By December 1944, at the height of World War II, our editor and art director had stepped away from the magazine to join the war effort — Raymond Carlson had enlisted in the Marines,…

Welcome to Holbrook, the sake capital of America! Sort of.
Although this Historic Route 66 and railroad town has never been known as the Hokkaido of the high desert, master brewer Atsuo Sakurai’s…

Let’s say you’re a pretty good runner who’s looking for a new challenge, so you sign up for a race in Bisbee that bills itself as a 5K (3.1 miles). But then you learn that Bisbee is more than a mile…

Wearing a close-fitting fleece and jeans, Loop Rawlins (pictured) leans into the trunk of his sedan at Tucson’s White Stallion Ranch. He looks like any arriving guest, car packed neatly with what…

The memories are starting to chip a little. Like nail polish on fingers that have plunged too many times into the dishwater or planted too many things into too-hard layers of earth. I do remember,…

In October 1775, as a nascent United States was breaking away from Great Britain on America’s East Coast, Juan Bautista de Anza and a party of some 240 Spanish colonists began a 1,200-mile journey…