Smoke rises at the two-day Medgar Evers Homecoming Festival near Pickens, Mississippi, where the tang of barbecued ribs is music to the nose. From the beginning the blues and southern cooking have nurtured each other: Performers traveled the 'chitlin’ circuit' of nightclubs that served up hot music with chicken and chitterlings on the side.
— 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.
