Pamela Selbert

As you drive into this historic town, if you're a particularly alert traveler you may glimpse a couple of rather inconspicuous signs along the road noting that a memorial to...

Every year, spring and fall, a strange phenomenon takes place along LaRue Road on the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois. For two months during each of those seasons this...

Driving into Arrow Rock is like entering an intriguing time warp. Elegant Greek revival and Georgian homes, vestiges of the days when the state was part of the Old South,...

When my husband and I decided to follow the Lewis and Clark Trail across Missouri recently, we were tempted to follow a path as similar to the original one as...

Few spots where tourists go pique the imagination like the Arabia Steamboat Museum, a museum built (in 1991) to exhibit a short-lived vessel that carried a cargo fit for kings...

Here, at the Falls of the Ohio State Park, an ancient fossilized coral reef sprawls along the north shore and extends into the Ohio River. Bizarrely configured, dun-colored and flat,...

Today the road is paved, utility wires are strung along it, and the vehicles that travel the old route move by engine power, not horse. Nonetheless, as you drive the...

As a Midwesterner prejudiced toward things Midwestern, I was intrigued when a friend reported recently that she'd spent a weekend touring Illinois wineries with wondrous results. Not only is wine...