Driving every mile of the world’s largest yard sale

Dating back nearly four decades, the Route 127 Yard Sale snakes through Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan.

Wisconsin is serious about its history, playful for its visitors

Go back in time in the Badger State by visiting Wisconsin’s version of Colonial Williamsburg: Old World Wisconsin, which depicts 19th century rural life in the nation’s heartland; learning about the various cultures (Ojibwe, French, English and American) that have called Madeline Island home at its museum; and eating at the Duck Inn Supper Club in Delavan, which was built in 1920 during Prohibition and still has its trap door.

Dive into Mystic Seaport for a glimpse into America’s maritime past

Connecticut’s Mystic Seaport Museum, with its many historic vessels and a re-created village, aims to whisk visitors away to seaside life in the mid-19th century.

Go dinosaur hunting at this imaginative prehistoric park in Connecticut

A 1 1/2-mile trail will take visitors past more than 60 lifelike dinosaur models at Dinosaur Place, and other activities such as a maze and water play area also await.

Ease into imaginary affluence with a trip to The Breakers in Rhode Island

Newport, R.I., was popular with Gilded Age moguls who built seaside summer getaways there more than a century ago. And The Breakers, built by the Vanderbilt family, is the grandest of them all. With more than 70 rooms, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994.

This nutty Florida island has snorkeling, pristine beaches and overnight options

Named for the abandoned plan to ship peanut oil from the island, Peanut Island, a nearly 80-acre haven tucked just inside the Lake Worth (Palm Beach) Inlet in the Intracoastal Waterway, is only accessible by boat. Aside from boating and snorkeling, visitors can also swim, fish, camp or stroll a 1.25-mile scenic walking trail.

Secret spots of the stars: Vegas showrooms hold hidden history 

Spots where Elvis Presley reflected and Frank Sinatra reclined are among the hidden spaces, places and items found in Las Vegas theaters.

The business of Bigfoot

Sasquatch tourism brings cryptid-curious to Colorado.

The quieter side of California’s Central Coast

With its “Slo-Cal” slogan, the Central Coast stretch of iconic Highway 1 invites visitors to slow down and marvel at the grandeur around them.

New Vegas attraction lets you become a player in a video game world

Dozens of radically interactive and immersive games are featured at the Electric Playhouse, a 10,000-square-foot high-tech new attraction that opened in June at the Forum Shops at Caesars in Las Vegas.

‘The Bear’ food tour serves fans a taste of the action in Chicago

“‘The Bear’ does such an amazing job of highlighting Chicago’s diverse food scene,” said Hannah Gleeson, director of operations at Chicago Food & City Tours. The company began the 3-hour themed excursions in November after months of requests from guests. “And it’s so much more fun to do something like this than just walk up to Mr. Beef.”

We rode America’s new tallest waterslide in Wisconsin Dells, and it was wild

Minneapolis Star Tribune travel editor gets an after-hours preview of the 145-foot-tall Rise of Icarus at Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park in Wisconsin Dells.

Tired of crowded campgrounds? Colorado company taps businesses to host RV travelers overnight

Harvest Hosts coordinates with businesses across the U.S., listing more than 5,000 sites as potential stopovers for RVs to park overnight. In exchange, campers pay Harvest Hosts an annual membership fee ranging from about $84 to $143 and also agree to patronize or support the sites they visit.

10 underrated national parks to visit this summer

The locations on the list span the U.S. from the coasts of Maryland and Virginia to the coast of Washington state and offer plenty of things to see, do and photograph.

Amtrak’s Acela upgrades its menu to match its speed

After introducing a menu for first-class Acela travelers, Amtrak is turning its attention to the rest of us in the cheap(er) seats in business class. Business-class travelers are getting a new menu all their own, in an effort to make the faster (and pricier) ride feel distinct from the regular Northeast Regional line.

The history of radio is thriving in this fascinating, hidden Bay Area museum

Run by volunteers from the California Historical Radio Society, the Bay Area Radio Museum and Hall of Fame in Alameda, Calif., is devoted to everything under the sun related to wireless communication, stretching back some 120 years to the invention of radio. Its thousands of mostly donated artifacts were located in Berkeley’s old KRE radio station before moving here in 2014. For much of its existence, the building has functioned as a social club and hangout space for die-hard radio collectors. But this summer, it plans to open as a full-fledged museum, with rotating exhibits and a burning mission to teach the public that radio is anything but dead.

St. George Island a short distance from Florida’s coast but a world away

A favorite destination for beachgoers, anglers and bird watchers, the 28-mile-long and 1-mile-wide Panhandle barrier island community, only a short drive from Tallahassee and tourist-crammed Panama City, is considered part of Florida’s so-called “Forgotten Coast,” those small, pristine and relatively undiscovered islands and towns like its cousins of Mexico Beach, Cape San Blas and Carrabelle that don’t get the party-hardy crowds of Miami, Daytona and Clearwater beaches.

Adaptive adventures are making national parks more inclusive

National parks are becoming increasingly more welcoming to outdoor enthusiasts with mobility issues, with some like Great Smoky Mountains National Park offering adaptive equipment loans and a program of free, adaptive excursions. Last year, its inaugural year, the national park and its partners organized three hikes and one mountain bike outing for parkgoers who use adaptive gear. This year, the program will feature three hikes, two mountain bike rides, one kayak trip and one night of backcountry camping. The outings are scheduled for select dates in June, July, September and October.

LA’s Ladder hopes to redefine traditional escape room experience

Think of the Ladder as a 90-minute interactive movie with puzzles, taking guests through five decades, beginning in the 1950s, in which they will play an exaggerated game of corporate life and find out just how corruptible they really are. Start in the mail room, and work your way through secretarial and middle-management-themed areas, all the while mixing puzzles, games and choose-your-own-adventure-like choices — so many that it’s impossible to discover all its content in a single play-through. It’s ambitious, and it’s counting on guests to come for the puzzles, and stay for the story, almost aiming to be more akin to a real-life video game than a traditional escape room.