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This Ohio Soul Food Spot Serves Fried Chicken With A Side Of Serious Comfort
I almost drove right past it, which would have been the biggest mistake of my eating life. This little Ohio soul food kitchen looks like nothing special from the curb, just a modest...
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This Oklahoma Renaissance Festival Fills Vinita With Viking Campfires, Costumed Pirates And Merchants
Some of the best weekends in Oklahoma start with a quick detour you almost skipped. You pull off a highway expecting a small-town fair, and suddenly a king is waving, a falcon...
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This Ordinary-Looking West Virginia Covered Bridge Has Carried Travelers Across The Greenbrier Valley Since 1870
Cars still rumble through a wooden covered bridge in West Virginia that dates to the horse-and-buggy days. No velvet rope, no ticket booth, no gift shop, just old timbers doing...
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A Texas Bookstore Closed After Its Famous Owner Passed Away, Then Reopened With Hundreds of Thousands of Books He Personally Collected
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist got married inside this bookstore, surrounded by books he spent decades collecting. He even directed that his ashes be kept there.
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This Ohio Country Store Is Packed With Bulk Foods, Fresh Produce, And Bargain Deli Meats
I went out for a quiet country drive and came home with a trunk full of flour, cheese, and one very sticky cinnamon roll wrapper. Ohio has plenty of Amish bulk food stores, but...
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Oklahoma’s Pop Culture History Fills The OKPOP Museum In Tulsa’s Arts District
Some of the best stories in Oklahoma are hiding in plain sight, tucked into the songs, shows, and comic books we grew up loving without ever knowing they had roots right here....
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This Oklahoma Highway Pie Shop Fills Its Shelves With Fried Pies, Cheeses And Locally Canned Goods
I only pulled off the interstate to stretch my legs, and I left holding a warm paper sack and a jar of pickled beets. Somewhere in northern Oklahoma, a plain little roadside building...
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8 Oklahoma Stops Between Tulsa And Bartlesville Worth Pulling Off The Highway For
Most of us treat the drive north out of Tulsa like a hallway, something to get through on the way to somewhere else. But this short stretch of Oklahoma highway hides farm stands,...
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8 Texas Food Spots Where One Family Recipe Became the Reason People Drive for Hours
One barbecue joint in this lineup opens for just a few hours on Saturday mornings, starting at 8 AM. Brisket for breakfast, if you can beat the line.
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This Oklahoma Western Store Has Enough Boots And Saddles To Make Your Barn Budget Nervous
I only stopped because I needed one pair of work boots, and I figured I would be in and out in ten minutes. An hour later I was still wandering past rows of leather, bright stitching,...
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This Texas Shop Is A Nostalgia Lover’s Dream With Antiques, Collectibles, And Forgotten Finds
An antique shop that serves 13 flavors of homemade cheesecake once a month? That's not a typo. On First Fridays, shoppers at...
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Workers Sealed Radioactive Waste Beneath This Missouri Mound, Then Built Stairs So Visitors Could Climb To The Top
About 1.5 million cubic yards of radioactive and chemical waste sit sealed inside a giant rock-covered mound. And yes, there's a staircase to the top.
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This Massive New Jersey Fabric Warehouse Is A Bargain Hunter’s Dream, With Endless Fabrics To Explore
A family stitched three of its kids' names together to name a fabric store. Michael, Victor, and Alice each lent a few letters, and the result hangs over a shop packed with bolts.
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This New Jersey Cafe Looks Innocent Until You Discover The Private Karaoke Rooms In The Back
Behind the bubble tea counter and the strawberry croffles sit private karaoke rooms with LED tambourines and dynamic lighting. Yes, tambourines that light up.
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This No-Vaccine, 100% Grass-Finished Indiana Farm Is Becoming a Secret Road Trip Mecca for Clean Meat
No vaccines, no antibiotics, no hormones, and not a single bag of synthetic fertilizer on the pasture. That's the promise behind one small farm in northeast Indiana.
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We Found the Perfect Little Indiana Café For Cider and Pumpkin Treats
A former dish girl now owns the cafe where she once scrubbed plates, and she still sells scratch-made pumpkin pie. That alone had me completely sold.
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10 Blue-Collar Missouri Restaurants That Serve Huge Portions For Cheap
At one Missouri cafe, the hot rolls never arrive politely on a plate. Servers toss them across the dining room, and you're expected to catch your own.
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This Texas Restaurant Is Serving Georgian Cheese Bread and Dumplings That Most Locals Have Never Even Heard Of
A boat-shaped loaf arrives filled with melted cheese, butter, and a golden egg yolk. That's dinner, not a bakery experiment, at a Texas restaurant serving food from the country...
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An Oregon Restaurant Has Kept Its Old-School Supper Club Feel for Decades
Red booths, a horseshoe bar, and walls full of old photos have been waiting along an old highway since 1940. That alone makes me want to slide into a booth tonight.
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You Can Fill A Grocery Sack With Craft Supplies For $25 At This Missouri Thrift Store
A full paper grocery sack of craft supplies, stuffed with whatever fits, for one flat price. I keep asking myself how that deal even works.
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Alexander Hamilton Helped Create America’s First Planned Industrial City Around This New Jersey Waterfall
A 77-foot waterfall roars through the middle of a city, and a Founding Father once looked at it and saw factories. Yep, that really happened.
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A New Hampshire Family Took Over A 1740 House, And Its Historic Dining Rooms Became A Local Institution
A 36-inch chocolate fountain flows every Sunday inside a house that dates back to around 1740. That alone made me sit up straight. Brunch...
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We Ranked 10 Maryland Apple Cider Donut Spots From Good to Worth Every Mile of the Drive
A cider press that once ran on a Model T engine now helps supply the apple cider for fresh donuts. That's a lot of history packed into a cinnamon-dusted snack, especially when...
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This Oregon Rock Formation Looks Like A Ghost Ship Floating On Blue Water
A rocky island the height of a 16-story building sits in the bluest lake you've ever seen. From the rim, it looks exactly like a sailing ship drifting in place.
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This New Hampshire Woman Turned An Old Chicken Coop Into A Christmas Doll Empire
A chicken coop once served as the design room for some of the most beloved Christmas dolls in America. The chickens moved out, and felt elves, mice, and snowmen moved in.
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A New Hampshire Family Opened A Drive-In In 1960, Then Turned It Into A Restaurant That Lasted Generations
A seafood restaurant and a pizza pub share one roof here, and the same family has run both since 1960. That alone made me stop scrolling.
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This 70-Year-Old New Jersey Drive-In Reopened After Two Years Closed, Then Hit The Market For $100,000
A drive-in that sat closed for about two years finally reopened, then popped up on Facebook Marketplace just months later. Yep, an actual roadside stand, listed like a used couch.
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After a Pennsylvania Town Lost Its Only Grocery Store, One Family Brought It Back and Created 60 Jobs
A grocery store with sushi, a coffee shop, and a Korean restaurant at the same address sounds like a big-city thing. This one sits in a small, friendly Pennsylvania borough that...
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This Remote Oregon River Canyon Feels Worlds Away From The Rest Of The State
Two wild rivers meet at the bottom of a canyon so quiet your phone basically gives up. The campground sits at the end of a slow, rough gravel road, and that's part of the charm.
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This New Hampshire Haunted Attraction Is Bringing Zombies, Twisted Clowns And Pure Darkness To Halloween
Five haunted houses are packed under one roof, inside a 65,000-square-foot building. That's not a typo. It's one of the biggest...
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A Motorcycle Signed By Tim Tebow Is Sitting Inside This New Jersey Antique Village
A Florida Gators motorcycle signed by Tim Tebow and Urban Meyer is parked inside a New Jersey antique shop. It's a custom Softail built by Purple Chopper LLC.
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This Maryland Antique Store Packs 10,000 Square Feet With Forgotten Treasures and Collectibles From Another Era
Baseball cards and NASCAR memorabilia share a roof with antique crocks, vintage records, and furniture from another era. And that's only a fraction of what's packed into this Maryland...
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A New Jersey Couple Opened A Turkish Bakery With One Oven, Now Their Five Daughters Keep It Running 24 Hours A Day
A bakery that never locks its doors, not even on holidays? Okay, that would make me stop. This New Jersey spot bakes Turkish...
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11 Missouri Eateries That Never Bother With Advertising Yet Fill Up Every Night
Somewhere in this lineup, a server throws hot rolls across the dining room, and hungry people line up just to try catching one. That alone sold me.
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She Started Selling Tacos From a Food Truck, Then Ben Affleck Walked Into Her Pennsylvania Restaurant and Business Exploded
A woman who once sold tacos from a food truck now runs a sit-down restaurant where Ben Affleck showed up to eat. That is the kind of plot twist most small kitchens only dream about.
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This Award-Winning Minnesota Restaurant Puts Vegetables at the Center of the Plate
Salt-and-pepper mushrooms with a scallion dip might be the most talked-about starter at one Minneapolis-area dining room. Fried mushrooms stealing attention from steak? That tells...
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Grandma’s Mason Jars Line The Shelves At These 8 West Virginia Amish And Mennonite Stores
Apple butter with extra cinnamon is sitting in a jar somewhere in West Virginia right now, and I can't stop thinking about it. One small bakery near the Virginia line even sells...
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This New Jersey Vintage Store Feels Like Someone Emptied The Best Closet From 1997
An entire online shopping category dedicated to blink-182. That's how seriously this New Jersey vintage store takes its nostalgic band tees, and I'm already sold.
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This Growing West Virginia Rail Trail Turns An Old Railroad Into Miles Of Scenic Riverside Path
A pair of runners once headed south on this trail and kept going for 50 miles. They only stopped because a wide creek had no bridge, and the water was too cold to swim.
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An Ohio General Store Once Had Permission to Sell Dynamite, and It’s Still Open 186 Years Later
A tiny country store once held permission to sell dynamite, right alongside everyday groceries. I would love to know who needed blasting supplies with their flour back then.
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This Oregon Restaurant Makes Peruvian Food The Reason To Skip Your Usual Dinner Spot
A Peruvian family's restaurant dream started decades ago in a small town in the Sacred Valley. It now lives inside a renovated house in north Portland, and I can't imagine a better...
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Vandals Shattered A Historic Virginia Statue, But Local Volunteers And Sculptors Brought It Back More Than A Decade Later
A stone Pan, the goat-legged Greek god of the wild, got knocked off his spot by vandals in December 2002. He stayed in pieces for more than ten long years.
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Wealthy Buyers Are Replacing Old Family Cabins With Million-Dollar Homes Along This Virginia Lake, And Its Shoreline Is Changing Fast
Five hundred miles of shoreline sounds like plenty to go around. Yet the old cabins along this lake keep giving way to sleek custom homes with serious price tags.
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A New Jersey Bagel Shop Is Turning Rainbow Bagels Into A Blink-And-You-Miss-Them Favorite
Rainbow bagels are the kind of treat that can vanish before you finish your first sip of coffee. Okay, that alone would make me set an early alarm.
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A Maryland Roadside Hangout Gave Up Its Old Identity and Became a Family Cafe With Homemade Cheesecakes
A former biker bar that once hosted rally crowds now sells homemade cheesecake and soft-serve ice cream. Its manager wanted a place where her children could feel welcome, so the...
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An Ohio Woman Turned Her Love of Childhood Candy Into a Store Packed With Retro Sweets and Toys
A real car from the Wildcat roller coaster at the old Idora Park now sits inside a candy store. I can't imagine a better mascot for a shop built on childhood thrills.
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War Of 1812 Soldiers Built This Ohio Fort, And Today You Can Walk Its Rebuilt Blockhouses
I'll admit it, I expected a quick look at some old logs and then a snack stop on the way home. Instead, I found myself wandering an enormous timber fort in northwest Ohio for hours,...
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A Doctor Bought A Missouri Spring For $800, Then Built A Hospital Over A Cave Hoping Its Air Would Help Patients
A doctor once built a hospital right on top of a cave mouth. He hoped the cool cave air would help people breathe easier. I wasn't...
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This Oklahoma Yarn Shop Turns A Quick Skein Run Into A Whole Afternoon For Knitters
I only needed one skein of sock yarn, the kind of errand that should take ten minutes in and out. Somewhere in Oklahoma, though, a small shop had other plans for my afternoon,...
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This Pennsylvania Restaurant Makes Calzones So Huge They Take 45 Minutes to Bake and Won’t Fit on a Single Plate
A calzone that takes about 45 minutes to bake should come with a warning label. This one reportedly stretches about as wide as the table it lands on.
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A Minnesota Restaurant Made A National List With One Chicken Sandwich
A spicy chicken sandwich helped a small Vietnamese restaurant land on the New York Times list of America's top 50 restaurants. That's a big deal for a dish you can hold in two...
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New Jersey Just Launched Official Film Trails That Let You Visit Real Horror-Movie Locations Across The State
The diner counter where a soaked camp owner grabbed coffee in the original Friday the 13th still serves breakfast today. I love that you can order home fries in the exact spot...
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From Door-to-Door Potholder Sales to a $25,000 Prize, This 82-Year-Old Ohio Shopkeeper Has Quite a Story
An 82-year-old shopkeeper in Ohio once sold potholders door to door, and later she walked away with a $25,000 prize. That's quite a resume for someone who now runs a cheerful little...
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An Ohio Toy Store Expanded to 20,000 Square Feet of Childhood Nostalgia
Floor-to-ceiling shelves of Star Wars figures, G.I. Joe, Transformers, and Ninja Turtles fill one giant room. The store carries...
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This Virginia Family-Owned Discount Warehouse Buys Truckloads Of Store Returns, And Shoppers Never Know What Bargains They’ll Find
The price tag here shrinks every single day of the week. Wait until Thursday, and whatever is left in the bins costs a fraction of what it did on Saturday.
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This Virginia Farm Turns More Than 20 Acres Into A Halloween Nightmare With Haunted Cornfields And Dark Forest Trails
A family farm famous for slides and cider donuts by day flips the switch after dark. Suddenly, more than 20 acres turn into chainsaws, spiders, and haunted cornfields.
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After 25 Years, This Ohio Vintage Shop Moved Into a Bigger Space Packed With Nostalgia
A full 1960s kitchen sits inside this shop, staged so well you half expect a casserole to come out of the oven. That alone made me want to know more.
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You Can Try A Little Of Everything At This Missouri Indian Restaurant’s Six-Day Lunch Buffet
Goat curry, chicken tikka masala, and pakoras made with paneer could all fit into one lunch break. That alone makes my stomach pay attention.
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Seven Pounds of Burger in 30 Minutes Is the Challenge at This Ohio Restaurant
Seven pounds of burger. Thirty minutes on the clock. That is the dare waiting at one smoky steak and barbecue spot in northeast...
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