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Mobile is the birthplace of Mardi Gras in America, and it remains a city that celebrates the occasion in a variety of ways, making it a terrific choice for adults and kids alike. With roughly 40

It all meets in Mobile. The Mobile River meets Mobile Bay and the bay soon meets the Gulf of Mexico, which all makes the city of 190,000 people one of the busiest seaports in America. The French met

The cellophane-wrapped sugar bomb hurtled toward us in the Alabama night. Jostling for position, I boxed out the 7-year-old boy to my right, lunged in front of the grandmother to my left and snagged

Archaeologists search a branch of the Mobile River for the sunken remains of the Clotilda, the last vessel to bring enslaved Africans to America.

PHOTOGRAPH BY ASHA STUART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

MOBILE,