| City life in the South comes in as many flavors as the foods we cook. Sample these and come back for seconds:
Alabama
Birmingham is a must-see for students of civil rights history.
Georgia
Little Five Points is Atlanta's coolest intersection, where suburban wannabes meet les vrai hipsters.While Virginia Highland is Atlanta's coziest intown neighborhood and shopping district.Savannah's not just for the white-glove set; trace the path of author John Berendt to see its dark side.Tour Sweet Auburn Avenue, a stronghold of the civil rights movement and once the "richest negro street' in America.
Kentucky
Check out our idiot's guide to Louisville.
Louisiana
If you must come to New Orleans, don't act like a tourist.
Mississippi
Oxford: A guide to good times in the land of Faulkner
North Carolina
Asheville is the perfect town to hang out in after leaving college. Microbreweries, galleries, bookstores, mountain vistas. Chapel Hill is also a magnet for those lucky or unlucky enough not to have a job yet.
South Carolina
Charleston, capital of the Low Country, is best seen from the seat of a bike.
Tennessee
Chattanooga is a great weekend getaway: a cool aquarium, scenic Lookout Mountain, poor Ruby Falls and the fabulous Rock City, northwest Georgia's kitsch kapital.Memphis has a lot of places to see, including a mighty strange pyramid. |