The Illinois Central [railroad to Chicago] was a steel highway for those seeking to leave the hardscrabble life exemplified by a store in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
— From "Traveling the Blues Highway," April 1999, National Geographic magazine
Cutting a swath of lights from the upper reaches of Harlem down through the heart of Manhattan, Broadway beckons to the starstruck like a blazing theater marquee.
A big-city subway, a rural county fair, Monument Valley, Central Park, a simple family restaurant: These are the scenes of America at its best captured as only National Geographic can.
From South Carolina to North Dakota, take to the open road and see pictures of what the United States has to offer intrepid travelers who venture off the beaten trail.
Welcome to the fast-paced, high-priced, freezing cold world of Tokyo's Tsukiji. To merely call it a fish market would be the same as calling the Grand Canyon a ditch.
