Smith’s Restaurant in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, specializes in creating these transcendent moments with sandwiches so good they’ll haunt your food dreams for weeks afterward.

Stepping through the entrance transports you to Arizona’s storied past, when ranching wasn’t a historical footnote but the lifeblood of the region. Inside, the rustic elegance continues with exposed ...

The choir goes one note higher for the fourth note, there are two more lub-dub pulses before a crucial beat of silence, and then that drop of the main theme, clear and bright - a signal from space.