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One of aviation’s little mysteries—solved

Much has changed since the “golden age” of air travel—but the debate around “dressing up” remains.

For the past 70 years, the Circle L 5 Riding Club in Fort Worth has been honoring the legacy of its forefathers.

Photographer Ilona Szwarc explores identity and femininity in her images of rodeo’s youngest heroines.

This third-generation family business has been in Charleston since 1966 and sells the area’s best selection of glasses, with brands from Oakley to Oliver Peoples. They also provide eye exams and eyewear repair with quick turnaround: a great resource for visitors in a pinch.

For homemade ice cream, sweets, and old-fashioned flavored sodas, take a step back in time to a real soda fountain in Cincinnati. Aglamesis Brothers has been a Cincy institution since 1908 and there is no better place around town to get old-school treats. There are two locations in the metro area, but it’s the Oakley Square location (pictured) that still has the old school soda fountain. Definitely worth a trip out of your way, especially if you are traveling with kids. Want a fresh vanilla or chocolate cola, or opera creams? Looking for toffees or a box of assorted chocolates? Hankering for a champagne italian ice? Aglamesis has them all.

Driving on Vineville Avenue, you might not suspect that the giant Tudor home to your right is a museum devoted to one of the biggest musical acts to come out of the South: The Allman Brothers Band. The band’s popularity exploded in the 1960s, and in 1970 the band, their families, and their friends moved into the sleepy town. It was near this house where Duane Allman and Berry Oakley died in motorcycle accidents a year apart. Shortly after that, the band members left Macon, but the house became a museum in the 1990s. The museum has the biggest collection of ABB memorabilia and has been renovated to how it looked when the band lived there.

A slip of a restaurant on Burnside, Canard is the least formal of Gabriel Rucker’s restaurants (Le Pigeon, Little Bird) yet is easily the most fun. The burger is justly celebrated by local critics, publications and even local food notables like former Simpsons writer Bill Oakley, all of whom praise Rucker’s take on the White Castle slider, steamed with onions, pickles, and cheese for $6 apiece. More decadent types opt for the “duck stack,” pancakes with duck gravy and foie gras, topped with a duck egg; or the foie gras dumplings. Canard is open all day until midnight. Because of the limited number of seats and lack of reservations, popping in at an off-hour is a smart move.

This wildlife center is the passion project of independent filmmaker Steve Kroschel, who has been featured in a number of television programs including National Geographic Wild’s Dr. Oakley, Yukon Vet and has helped to film avalanche footage used in the movie Everest, with Josh Brolin and Jake Gyllenhaal. Located 45 kilometers north of Haines, this animal refuge offers close access to wildlife and an opportunity to photograph grizzly bears, moose, minks, weasels, lynxes, foxes, reindeer, silver wolves, snowy owls and porcupines.