Vanita Salisbury

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Beneath the Surface

From touring restaurants in actual caves to myth-busting urban legends of the underground, Beneath the Surface will connect you to the most unexpected and curious experiences our world has to offer, providing a holistic—and surprising—look at the literal and figurative world of underground culture.

Beneath the Surface: Going Deep Into Caves & the Underground

Groundhog Run benefiting the children of Ability KC

Travel

Explore adventure guides and design a custom itinerary for the destination of your choice in and around the city.

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To get to SubTropolis, take one of several entrances that buries you 150 feet below Kansas City, where 270 million-year-old limestone deposits have been excavated into massive, honeycomb-like pockets.

The Midwest's Coolest Charity Race Lurks Beneath Kansas City's Streets

Next Flight Out

Next Flight Out: Cheap Flights and Travel Tips

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With a chill in the air and new futuristic-sounding variants popping up around the country, we head into February literally and figuratively cold, with no idea what those rodents we trust as meteorologists will predict.

Take a Leap This February with These Big Swing Travel Ideas

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What do you do when you wanna rock, but your neighbors upstairs would prefer you… not?

For Live Music in Vienna, Head Under the Tracks

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Pull up to the wooden exterior of the Southfork Saloon in Martin City, Montana, just as the sun starts to dip, and it’s a cinematic scene right out of an old western: shadows are lit by a neon “Bar Open” sign, the saloon’s propped-up 1949 facade framed by Teakettle Mountain in the distance.

Montana’s Barstool Ski Races Are Exactly What They Sound Like

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Here’s a lesson on tracking mountain gorillas in the Virunga Mountains of East Africa (provided you’re already experienced): First, scramble up volcanic rocks and bushwhack through bamboo thickets to where you last saw the rare apes.

Goof Around with Gorillas on a Once-in-a-Lifetime Rwandan Adventure

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If you get turned around on the way to Sedona—population 10,341—there are a couple ways to situate yourself.

Get Your Psychic Kicks in Arizona’s Trippiest Desert

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Food festivals are about community, cultural heritage, and putting copious amounts of tasty things in our mouths.

Belly Up to These Delicious Food Festivals in 2023

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Gearing up for the first month of a new year we always get chills—and not just because, for many of us, it’s actually chilly outside.

Find Your Fancy with These January Getaway Ideas

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This National Park Is Basically Joshua Tree Meets the Ocean

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When I told friends I’d be attending a wilderness survival class in Brooklyn’s very busy, very urban Prospect Park, laughter was almost a reflex.

Wilderness Doesn’t Always Mean Wild: The All-Around Benefits of Survival Education 

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A couple of years ago, a luxe new steakhouse opened in the heart of Kalispell, Montana.

Mix Western Tradition with the Great Outdoors in This Montana Town

The most popular souvenir at the Original Vienna Snow Globe Factory and Museum—AKA Original Wiener Schneekugelmanufaktur—is, as you might guess, a snowman.

Vanita Salisbury’s Recent Articles

The Midwest's Coolest Charity Race Lurks Beneath Kansas City's Streets

Outpace Punxsutawney Phil at SubTropolis's annual Groundhog Run, the world's only fully underground 10K.

Take a Leap This February with These Big Swing Travel Ideas

It is the Year of the Rabbit, after all.

For Live Music in Vienna, Head Under the Tracks

In the Gürtel, nobody can hear you scream (in a good way).

Montana’s Barstool Ski Races Are Exactly What They Sound Like

When the weather gets cold, things get wacky.

Goof Around with Gorillas on a Once-in-a-Lifetime Rwandan Adventure

Trek back in time with gorillas in your midst.

Get Your Psychic Kicks in Arizona’s Trippiest Desert

It’s basically Disneyland for the New Age crowd.

Belly Up to These Delicious Food Festivals in 2023

We are what we eat. Might as well make it good.

Find Your Fancy with These January Getaway Ideas

Get out there and get excited again.

This National Park Is Basically Joshua Tree Meets the Ocean

Heaven’s entrance fee? $3.

Wilderness Doesn’t Always Mean Wild: The All-Around Benefits of Survival Education

This holiday season, consider the gift of outdoor preparedness.

Mix Western Tradition with the Great Outdoors in This Montana Town

And if you want a casino and a Huckleberry beer, you can have that too.

For the Ultimate Holiday Snow Globe, Go Straight to the Viennese Source

Austria's Perzy family has been peddling their dazzling—and accidental—creation for more than a century.