This recently renovated 1960s-era library makes a major statement with bold blue that saturates parts of the space from floor to ceiling. Read more...

National Car Rental is highly rated for customer service and has a wide variety of vehicles to rent. National is particularly good for business travelers with special rates available for companies of any size. Points from air miles programs including Delta SkyMiles and American Airlines AAdvantage can be used towards your car rental with National. Read more...

“Turn your body into a weapon.” That’s the motto at DeFranco’s, New Jersey’s hardcore, warehouse-style training facility focused on cutting-edge strength and conditioning techniques. Void of TVs, juice bars— oh, and air conditioning (NBD)—this no-frills gym is all about discipline, determination, and results. Just ask Dhani Jones, Brian Cushing, and its other pro athlete trainees. Read more...

Trailhead Coffee Roasters couldn’t be more Portland unless you put a bird on it. Owner Charlie Wicker has been pedaling…literally…his fair-trade, locally roasted brews from a traveling bike coffee bar that he modeled after Art Deco trains. Read more...

Coffee shop during the day and tasting menu at night, Little Pearl offers Washington D.C. residents a bright place to spend some time. Try their inventive coffees (we’re looking at you iced banana latte) and grab a potato donut or elote tostadas (with garlic mayo, long hot peppers, and avocado crema) from the cafe. Read more...

Northeast Regional, part of Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, is closely affiliated with Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, the birthplace of osteopathy, where osteopathic-founder Andrew Taylor Still’s original office is on display. With 115 beds, it has with more than 130 physicians on staff in 26 specialties and subspecialties, and 123 full-time registered nurses. It logs 4,243 admissions, 1,390 inpatient Read more...

In an old subterranean power plant, the Edison is the largest bar on this list. It’s also, in a way, the most impressive—because even when the place is filled to capacity, which is often, its bartenders manage to churn out cocktails like the classic Brown Derby (bourbon, clover-honey syrup, grapefruit) that rival those poured at twelve-seat speakeasies. Even better, the Read more...

Evanston Hospital is the flagship of four-hospital NorthShore University HealthSystem, which has an Aa2 bond rating from Moody’s Investor Services and annual revenue of more than $1.5 billion. With 775 beds and a staff of nearly 9,000, the hospital boasts a cancer center, cardiovascular care center and medical genetics program. “We stress the fact that we are a system of Read more...

Wrigley Field may be Chicago’s best bar, but Violet Hour mis the best cocktails in town. Out of the three dozen drinks, there’s always a worthwhile variation on the sidecar, the Negroni, and the old-fashioned. The bartenders utilize five shapes of ice, and as the line grows outside this elegant haunt, their attention to detail remains the same; mint is Read more...