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This Indiana 12,500-Square-Foot Warehouse Is The Largest Rock And Mineral Shop In The Midwest
A rock shop should not need comfortable shoes. This one does. At 12,500 square feet, this Indiana warehouse is big enough for...
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This Unassuming West Virginia Hillside Is Where The Last Battle Of The Revolutionary War’s Frontier Was Fought
You could drive right past this little patch of green grass and never guess what happened there. It looks like a quiet riverside spot for a picnic, a stroll, and maybe a nap on...
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This Artisanal Indiana Creamery Is Known For Some Of The Creamiest Hand-Stretched Mozzarella In The Midwest
The mozzarella is having a very hands-on afternoon. Warm curd gets pulled. Stretched. Folded.
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10 Hidden-Gem Indiana Amish Markets Where You Can Fill A Cart With Hard-To-Find Groceries
There is a dangerous phrase in grocery shopping. “We're just picking up a few things.” That sentence does not survive long in these Indiana Amish markets. A few noodles become...
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These 9 Virginia Restaurants Are Joining A Statewide Celebration Of Latino Food This October
October brings a statewide celebration of Latino food to Virginia, and the lineup this year is worth clearing your calendar for. Nine restaurants are participating, each one offering...
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Treasure Hunters Could Lose An Entire Afternoon Inside This Missouri Thrift Store
A lamp, a winter coat, three picture frames, and something weird you cannot quite identify can all end up in the same cart here. That is the fun of this Missouri thrift store.
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This South Carolina Restaurant Has Sold More Than 600,000 Crab Cakes Since 1997
More than 600,000 crab cakes have walked out of one South Carolina kitchen, a number that is hard to picture until you imagine a stack taller than any building in the state. I...
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One Of Texas’ Oldest Roadside Inns Is Still Standing, And You Can Actually Stay Here
Most historic inns are museums now, roped off and preserved behind glass, but this Texas roadside landmark is different because you can actually book a room and spend the night...
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Louisiana Cajun Cooking Lands In Oklahoma City’s Uptown District At Cajun Corner
Some of the best meals in Oklahoma show up when you least expect them, like a plate of blackened catfish found on an ordinary errand day. I walked in thinking I would grab a quick...
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This North Carolina Restaurant Once Grew to 36 Locations Across 9 States, Now Only One Is Left
Booths shaped like elevator cars and wood smoke drifting through the room greet visitors at a North Carolina restaurant that refuses to disappear. In the 1980s, this quirky chain...
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What Makes Coopers Rock In West Virginia Worth The Drive Is A Cliff View Over A Whole River Gorge
You pull off the interstate expecting a quick stretch of the legs and maybe a pretty picture. Then you walk a couple of minutes through the trees, step onto a rock ledge, and the...
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A 2-Pound Hickory-Smoked Pork Steak Is The Main Attraction At This Tiny Missouri Barbecue Joint
Two pounds of pork steak is not exactly a light lunch. That is the point. This Missouri barbecue joint is best known for a...
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This Oregon “Barn” Was Actually Built To Train Hundreds Of Horses Through The Winter
Forget everything a regular barn looks like. This one was built for horses doing laps, not cows chewing hay. A perfect circle...
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Bring Comfortable Shoes Because This Enormous Oklahoma Swap Meet Eats Up An Entire Saturday
I only meant to stop for a quick look, maybe ten minutes, maybe a cup of coffee. Five hours later, I had a sunburned neck, a bag of odd little treasures, and the smell of fried...
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Every Sunday, Bargain Hunters Pack This West Virginia Flea Market Selling Everything From Tools To Goats
You hear about it first from someone at a gas station counter, almost like a secret they are glad to share. Then you pull off a winding two-lane road in southern West Virginia...
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This Texas Filipino Food Shop Started In A Garage And Grew Into A 30-Year Family Business
Starting a food business in a garage takes nerve, and turning that garage operation into a thirty year family business takes something even harder to define, which is exactly what...
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This Tulsa Art Deco Landmark Lets You Ride Up To A Rooftop View For Free
I went downtown for an ice cream cone and ended up craning my neck at a tower that looked like it wandered in from old New York. Heavy brass doors, a painted ceiling, and a peaked...
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Why Hikers Keep Climbing To The Old Stone Castle Ruins Tucked Into Oklahoma’s Hills
You turn off a quiet road in eastern Oklahoma, trees close in overhead, and then a stone castle suddenly fills the windshield. It feels like a wrong turn at first, the kind of...
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This Family-Run Oklahoma City Strip-Center Kitchen Serves Lasagna So Big It Comes Home In A Box
Some of the best meals in Oklahoma start with a shrug and a parking lot you almost drove past. I went in expecting a quick plate of pasta and walked out carrying a box heavy enough...
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This Quiet West Virginia Theater Has Been Showing Movies Longer Than Any Other In America
Some of the best evenings in West Virginia start with a small brick building you almost walk right past. You notice a glowing doorway, smell warm buttered popcorn, and suddenly...
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Folks Drive An Hour And Grab A Number For Fresh-Cut Steaks At This West Virginia Meat Market
Some of the best meals in West Virginia start in a place you might drive right past without a second look. A plain building, a small parking lot, and a counter where people patiently...
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A Texas Town Was Burned During The Revolution, But You Can Still Explore What It Looked Like Nearly 200 Years Later
Nearly 200 years ago, a Texas town was burned during the revolution, leaving behind little more than ash and memory, yet today you can still walk the grounds and get a sense of...
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This Historic Missouri Hotel Has Been Welcoming Travelers Since 1845
Hotels do not usually come with nearly two centuries of stories attached. This Missouri stay has been welcoming travelers since 1845, back when steamboat captains and tradesmen...
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What One Boy Started Collecting At Seven Now Fills This Free Claremore Museum With Outlaw Relics
I only pulled over because I needed to stretch my legs and the sign said the door was free to walk through. Two hours later, I was still wandering rows of glass cases, staring...
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Seven West Virginia Company Towns Where The Old Coal Store Buildings Still Stand
Round a bend on a quiet hollow road in West Virginia and you might spot it: a big brick or stone building that looks far too grand for the tiny town around it. Chances are, that...
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Dutch Pancakes, Poffertjes, And Stroopwafels Fill This Missouri Restaurant Inspired By The Netherlands
Tiny pancakes, giant pancakes, and caramel-filled waffle cookies all on one menu is a pretty good sign breakfast is about to get interesting.
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This Texas Mexican Restaurant Has Been Serving Diners In A Historic Hill Country Setting For Decades
Serving diners for decades in a historic Hill Country building takes more than good food, and this Texas Mexican restaurant has managed to do both while keeping its charm intact...
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This 10.5-Mile Missouri Trail Climbs To A 1,740-Foot Peak With 10-Mile Valley Views
Your legs will know pretty quickly that this is not a casual little walk. This Missouri trail climbs through forest, rocky glades, and steep stretches before reaching some of the...
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Seven West Virginia Mountain Lodges Where A Fireplace And Home Cooking Wait After Dark
The best part of a long mountain day in West Virginia is often the part that comes after the sun slips behind the ridge. Your boots are muddy, your cheeks are cold, and all you...
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This Cage-Free Indiana Sanctuary Gives Rescued Cats The Love, Comfort, And Second Chance They Deserve
The hotel guests here do not know how to check out. They also have absolutely no interest in doing so. This Indiana cat sanctuary...
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This Indiana Farm Sells Pasture-Raised Meat Straight From Its Own Fields
The cow is outside. The steak is inside. And somehow, both are part of the same stop. This Indiana farm keeps that connection...
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This Missouri Asian Eatery Fills Steamed Bao With Everything From Pork Belly To Fried Chicken
Pork belly in one bun, fried chicken in the next. That is the kind of lunch decision you get here. This Missouri eatery builds...
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10 Texas Farmers Markets Brimming With Homemade Foods And Happy Crowds
A good farmers market does more than sell vegetables, and the ten Texas spots on this list prove it by filling their stalls with homemade breads, jars of jam, fresh pastries, and...
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This Locally Owned Oregon Bistro Puts a Refined French Twist on Pacific Northwest Ingredients
French technique just packed its bags and moved to the high desert, and honestly, it's thriving out here. Local mushrooms get...
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This 50,000-Square-Foot Missouri Antique Mall Packs More Than 300 Booths Under One Roof
You could walk in here with an hour to spare and lose the whole afternoon instead. This Missouri antique mall spreads more than 300 booths across 50,000 square feet, so there is...
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This New Jersey Town Just Got A Japanese “Kitchen Lab” Unlike Your Typical Sushi Spot
Sushi is wonderful, but Japanese food has a much bigger story to tell. A newly opened “Kitchen Lab” is bringing that idea...
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This Maryland Consignment Store Is Packed With Designer Pieces Worth Hunting For
Designer pieces usually come with designer prices. But consignment stores offer a different path, one where patience and a good eye can pay off.
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This Oregon Museum Has a Collection of Rocks and Minerals That Looks Like a Treasure Vault
Rocks aren't supposed to sparkle like this, yet cases here glow with the kind of color that makes visitors double check they're not actually looking at jewelry.
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9 New Hampshire State Park Cabins You Can Book Overnight Without Hotel Prices
Hotel prices can turn a weekend getaway into a budget problem, but there is another option that many travelers overlook. New Hampshire state parks offer cabins that can be booked...
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Every Autumn Weekend, This Vintage Train in West Virginia Rolls Through Golden Mountain Foliage
Some of the best memories in West Virginia start with a sound you hear before you see anything, a low whistle drifting over the hills on a cool fall morning. Follow it, and you...
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A New Jersey Lumber Village Became One Of The State’s Largest Cranberry Operations, Then Turned Into A Ghost Town
Ghost town sounds dramatic until you see empty village buildings standing beside old cranberry bogs. Then, well, the name starts making sense.
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A Pennsylvania Lighter Company Has Repaired Millions of Zippos for Free, Even When Their Owners Send Back Decades-Old Ones
Shiny metal and good stories turned a quick roadside stop into a lost afternoon. Somewhere in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania, a small town holds a company that has fixed...
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This Small-Town Indiana Restaurant Is Known for Steaks People Drive Miles For
There are meals people choose because they are nearby. Then there are meals people choose because they are willing to drive for them.
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This Oregon Restaurant Is Built Around a Giant Wood-Fired Oven
Flames roar loud enough to hear from the parking lot, and that's before anyone even steps through the door. A massive wood-fired...
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Still Family-Owned Since 1967, This New Hampshire Restaurant Keeps Feeding Generations
Family owned restaurants have a certain quality that chains cannot replicate, and this New Hampshire spot is proof of that. The doors opened in 1967, and the same family has been...
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11 New Jersey Restaurants To Try If You’ve Never Had Peruvian Food
If Peruvian food is still a blank spot on your dining map, oh, you have some catching up to do. New Jersey has restaurants...
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This Maryland Restaurant Has More Than 275 Years Of History Behind It
Most restaurants measure their history in decades. This Maryland spot measures it in centuries. With more than 275 years behind...
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One Of New Jersey’s Few Remaining Old-Fashioned General Stores Is Now Up For Sale
If these old walls could talk, they would need a very long lunch break. This old-fashioned New Jersey general store has been...
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An Abandoned Missouri Quarry Became A Wooded Park Where Century-Old Stone Remnants Still Line The Trails
You could walk right past the first stone remnant if you were not looking for it. Then another appears. And another. Before...
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A Georgia Town Put Up a Stone Monument After Neighbors Spent Two Days Rescuing One Pig From a Well
Pig monuments are not something you see every day, and one in Georgia honors a very lucky animal. Cruising down a quiet state route, a small sign reading Pig Monument made me slam...
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More Than 10,000 Children Passed Through This Little-Known Minnesota Institution
Ten thousand children walked through these doors over the decades this institution operated, each one carrying a story most visitors never learn about anywhere else.
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The Tiny Post Office In West Virginia Is A Charming Small-Town Throwback
Some of the best stops in West Virginia are the ones you almost drive right past. A small building, a flag out front, and a screen door that has seen more hellos than anyone could...
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This Tiny New Jersey Village Is Quietly Becoming One Of The State’s Coolest Day-Trip Spots
There are day trips that require an itinerary, and then there are places where wandering is the whole point. This tiny New...
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Seven West Virginia Mills Where The Old Water Wheel Still Turns Beside The Creek
You hear it before you see it, a steady splash and creak drifting through the trees along some back road in West Virginia. Round the bend and there it is, an old mill hugging the...
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Millions of WWII Soldiers Passed Through This Tiny Ohio Railroad Town, Where Volunteers Fed Them Around the Clock
Warm coffee and a cookie were the greeting at a small Ohio depot, and the gesture meant more than I understood at the time. Driving into this quiet village, a simple train museum...
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This Historic Indiana Town Hides A World-Class National Landmark Dedicated Entirely To Quilting History
A quilt can tell you who made it. Sometimes it can tell you what they believed was worth saving. That is what makes this Indiana...
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This Oregon Restaurant Serves a Seven-Course Dinner From a Tiny Home-Based Kitchen
Seven courses out of a kitchen the size of most apartments sounds impossible until it actually happens right in front of you. Space...
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This New Virginia Restaurant Brings Izakaya Dining, Sushi, Ramen, And Hibachi Under One Roof
Most restaurants pick one lane. Sushi bar, ramen shop, hibachi grill. This new Virginia restaurant decided to do all of it, and...
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This Virginia Market Is Bringing A Family Food Tradition Back To The Building Where It Started Generations Ago
Some businesses close and stay closed. Others find their way back. This Virginia market is doing the second thing, returning...
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