Much more than a guide to pretty bed-and-breakfasts, Victorian tours, and quaint restaurants, this unique travel book surveys our rich historical and architectural traditions--as kept alive by 200 of the most charming small towns across America. Maps.

A travel guide to America's rich historical and architectural traditions, as kept alive by 200 charming small towns across America. This fourth edition is revised and updated for 2000 and covers all 50 states with at least one town per state. It features historic inns, B&Bs and local and friendly restaurants. There is also information on vintage train rides, covered bridges, country fairs, old mills, mining towns, picnic spots, scenic parks and museums.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "James and Deborah Fallows have always moved to where history is being made.... They have an excellent sense of where world-shaping events are taking place at any moment" —The New York Times • The basis for the HBO documentary streaming on HBO Max For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.