Columbus, Indiana

(800) 468­6564 www.columbus.in.us

There IS another town in the Midwest known for its stunning architecture: Columbus, Indiana, boasting buildings designed by the likes of I.M. Pei, Richard Meier, Deborah Berke, Eliel and Eero Saarinen, Harry Weese and others. Don’t miss the Eero Saarinen designed Miller House and Garden, called “America’s most significant modernist house,“ which will catapult you to the 1950s with its conversation pit, fanciful interior decor and checkerboard plantings of native flowers.

Have a Green River at the restored turn­of­the­century ice cream parlor and museum, Zaharakos; and don’t leave without trying a Hoosier fave — the pounded pork tenderloin sandwich at The Columbus Bar.

Stay at the boutique Hotel Indigo and walk to everything or sleep amid history at the Inn at Irwin Gardens B & B, an Edwardian mansion built in 1910.