Martinborough is a curious town, where the streets, seen from above, form the outline of a Union Jack.
Nestled south of the majestic Nevada Sierras in the curious town of Alamo lies a desert hideaway so stately, so serene, so picturesque that it can only be described as a Cowboy's Dream.
The first slide in the "road show" below is a photograph that I took in 1982 of the most curious sign connected to the most curious town: Art City, Utah.
Their curious mobile town square – which can be transported on the back of a bicycle – will travel around five unloved parts of the town.
Updated at 11.53pm BST 11.41pm BST Carlsbad 101 The call of the road – and being behind schedule – are keeping Katie from the city of Carlsbad, a curious frontier town founded on the banks of the Pecos River, in the late 19th century.
While it was tempting to spend more time vegetating by the pool, I was curious to explore town.
Perched on steep cliffs above this curious little riverside town, which is just a mile long and 500 feet deep, is a ghostly granite-and-limestone group of buildings that have preoccupied residents for decades.
It does not take much for the historically curious in either town — like Richard Gardiner, a professor of teacher education at Columbus State University here — to explain why theirs is the true originator of a revered American holiday and why the other is well-meaning but simply misguided.
When news reaches Missoula that Rankin has won the general election by a plurality of 7,567 votes, reporters and photographers crowd the front lawn of her house in town, curious to bring back news of the "lady from Montana" — specifically what she looks like, what she's wearing.
All of these topics stirred up controversy at the Aspen Ideas Festival, a yearly gathering that draws luminaries and the intellectually curious to a town deliberately far from the world's problems so that they can be examined and contemplated from afar.
The two-day sale attracted some 10,000 Chevy aficionados – serious bidders and the merely curious – to this town of 1,700 residents, with online bidding attracting would-be buyers from all over the world.
