New York is the No. 1 destination for St. Louisans heading out of town for the Thanskgiving holidays.

That data comes from Orbitz, which listed the top 10 destinations as, in order, New York, Los Angeles, Denver, Atlanta, Newark, San Francisco,…

Author John Wright will discuss “West Africa Travels” at a meeting of the International Travel Club on Saturday, Nov. 21, at the St. Louis County Library headquarters, 1640 South Lindbergh Boulevard.

The meeting, which is free and open to the public, will…

Coffee-table books make nice Christmas presents, and here’s one that will make you want to throw your camera away.

LIFE The Classic Collection Wonders of the World is 144 pages of professional photographers’ view of Earth’s most beautiful places. The editors…

A trumpeter plays in front of the Gateway Arch. (AP Photo/St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission)

Betsy Taylor of the Associated Press sings this St. Louis blues in this story distributed by the wire service on Monday:

ST. LOUIS (AP) - There’s…

Silver Dollar City, the 1880s-style theme park in Branson, will celebrate “An Old Time Christmas” Nov. 7-Dec. 30, turning the park into an evening wonderland.

The displays include the Christmas on Main Street light and sound show, 1,000 decorated Christmas trees, a…

The Toilet Seat Museum in Alamo Heights, Texas, leads the list of America’s Wackiest Attractions, according to TripAdvisor travelers and editors.

More than 700 decorated toilet seat lids adorn the over-sized garage that is the museum.

Carhenge, jalopies painted gray to look like Stonehenge…

Finally, St. Louis has made a national list for a good thing. A survey released by Travel + Leisure ranks St. Louis third among the nation’s affordable cities.

For its annual “favorite cities” online survey, the magazine’s respondents rated 30 popular…

The sluggish economy has a few benefits for travelers, including a decline in the average price of a hotel room.

The Hotel Price Intex, a report put together by hotels.com, looked at approximately 78,000 properties in more than 13,000 locations, with…

Gazing at Gaudi. Photo by Jeannie Evans

For a story in this week’s Let’s Eat section, I wrote about a hands-on cooking class my daughter and I took this summer in Barcelona, Spain. While the class was a highlight of our…