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…

Unfortunately, petty theft is a fact of life in many top tourism destinations. I found this out the hard way in Barcelona when someone grabbed a suitcase sitting at my feet.

I wasn’t surprised, then, to see this press release from…

Travel Leaders, a business and leisure travel company, has conducted a survey, based on actual bookings, and ranked cities according to popularity. St. Louis came in at 43rd.

The top 10 domestic destinations were, in order, Las Vegas, Orlando, Fla., New…

Vista from Riverview Cemetery.

The Louisiana Historic Preservation Association is sponsoring tours this Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 5-6, of the town’s historic Riverview Cemetery, which features spectacular views of the Mississippi River.

The tours will include visits from some of Louisiana’s pioneers…

The 8th annual TOCO Family Festival & Camp Out will be Friday and Saturday, Sept. 11-12, in the Shawnee National Forest of Southern Illinois.

TOCO stands for Tapestry of Community Offerings and organizes family-themed events for charitable and educational purposes. Proceeds from…