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Charlie Chaplin Used to Race a Friend to This California Restaurant on Horseback, With Dinner Going to the Winner
Hollywood has always loved a good contest, and one of its oldest involves two friends, two horses, and a dinner bill. The loser paid at a grill that has been standing on the same...
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This Secret Backroad Country Market In Alabama Is Basically The Costco Of Fresh Groceries
There should be a warning at the entrance. Do not shop hungry. Especially not here. This Alabama market turns...
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This Oregon Restaurant Serves Vietnamese Food Until Nearly Midnight
Midnight cravings usually mean a drive-thru and regret. This place offers a much better plan. Pho simmers late into the night...
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Thousands Of Hot Dogs Have Come Off The Grill At This Tiny New Hampshire Diner
Some kitchens measure their history in years, and others measure it in hot dogs. This tiny New Hampshire diner falls into the second category, with thousands of dogs having come...
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Maryland Turned a Historic Bank and Sewing Machine Factory Into This Unusual Restaurant
Adaptive reuse is a phrase you hear in architecture circles, but it is a lot more fun when it involves food. This Maryland restaurant sits inside a building that once housed a...
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This Missouri Pizzeria Has Been Making Kansas City-Style Gourmet Pizza For 50 Years
Fifty years later, people are still arguing over which pizza to order first. This Missouri pizzeria has been making its own version of Kansas City-style gourmet pizza since 1976,...
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This Ohio Candy Factory Turns Out 30,000 Pounds of Chocolates in a Single Shift
Warm cocoa drifts across the parking lot before the door even opens, a smell that wraps around you and pulls you inside. This Ohio chocolate factory turns out thirty thousand pounds...
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This Restaurant Serves a Taste of Scandinavia in the Middle of Minnesota
Somewhere between the sauerkraut and the sausage, Scandinavia apparently relocated straight into the middle of the Midwest. Recipes...
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America’s First Rural Free Mail Delivery Started On A Quiet West Virginia Road Near Charles Town
Picture a farm family in West Virginia, waiting days or even weeks for a letter because the nearest post office was a long wagon ride away. Then one crisp autumn morning, a few...
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This West Virginia Train Turns A Slow River Ride Into Dinner With Bald Eagles Outside
Some of the best meals in West Virginia come with no neon sign and no fancy fuss, just a quiet spot you almost drive past. This one happens to roll.
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A 60-Foot Stone Tower Has Stood on a California Beach Since 1926, Complete With a Secret Staircase to the House Above
Salt air, crashing waves, and a stone castle rising straight out of the rocks. This California shoreline hides a tower that looks like it wandered off a storybook page and decided...
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This Alabama Orchard Turns Autumn Days Into A Mouthwatering Festival Of Food And Family Fun
The apples are not supposed to be ammunition. At least, that is what common sense suggests. Then somebody loads one into an air...
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11 Oregon Restaurants Hiding In Small Towns That Deserve A Detour
GPS says keep driving, stomach says pull over immediately. Trust the stomach on this one. A handful of small towns scattered across the state hide restaurants nobody expects to...
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This Virginia Spot Makes So Many Kinds Of Georgian Khachapuri You Might Need A Second Visit
Khachapuri is one of those dishes that sounds simple until you see the variations. At its core, it is bread filled with cheese, but the regional differences are significant.
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10 Virginia Spots Where Filipino Comfort Food Goes Way Beyond Lumpia
Filipino food has been gaining attention in recent years, and for good reason. The flavors are bold, the combinations are unexpected, and the comfort factor is high.
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9 Surprisingly Affordable Fall Day Trips In Maryland You’ll Want To Take This Year
Fall is the best season for a day trip. The air is crisp, the leaves are changing, and the crowds have thinned out. But a good...
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A Pennsylvania Museum Dedicated to America’s First Coast-to-Coast Highway Has a 25-Foot Gas Pump Outside
Giant vintage gas pumps are not something you see every day, and laughing out loud at the sheer size of one is a perfectly reasonable reaction. The towering pump serves as the...
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This Missouri Farm Has Been In The Same Family Since 1854 And Still Grows More Than 1,500 Apple Trees
There are family farms, and then there are farms where the family story stretches back to the 1850s. This Missouri orchard is still run by the same family today, with more than...
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6 Historic Oklahoma Restaurants Where The Booths, Pie Case And Chicken Fried Steak Haven’t Changed
Some of the best meals in Oklahoma come from buildings you might drive right past without a second look. You pull in because you are hungry, slide into a worn booth, and suddenly...
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A Georgia Preacher Said a Painted Finger Told Him to Make Art, Then He Created 46,000 Pieces
Bottle caps glitter in the sidewalks, a tower of hubcaps catches the sun, and Bible verses cover nearly every painted surface. This garden in Georgia looks like a dream someone...
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11 Minnesota Restaurants That Look Ordinary Until You See The Menu
Beige walls, plain booths, nothing remotely Instagram-worthy about the outside. Then the menu lands, and suddenly everyone's paying attention.
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Workers Renovating a Georgia Restaurant Broke Through the Floor and Found a 30-Foot Gold Mine Shaft
Gold veins running through rock walls are not what most diners expect a few steps from their table, but Georgia has a restaurant where that is exactly the case. In 2006, workers...
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The World’s Largest Military Aviation Museum Is in Ohio, With Hundreds of Aircraft Spread Across Massive Hangars
Full-size bombers parked indoors are not something you see every day. Stopping mid-step and laughing out loud at the sheer size is the only reasonable reaction.
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Why Seniors Are Flocking to This Affordable Alabama Retirement Haven
The kayak is not supposed to spend retirement in the garage. Neither are the walking shoes. Yet that is what happens in plenty...
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This 1819 Virginia Mansion Just Reopened With A Restaurant After Decades Of Sitting Empty
Reopening a building that has sat empty for decades is not a simple project. There are structural issues, historical requirements, and the question of what the space should become.
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This Virginia Balkan Restaurant Makes Its Burek With Hand-Stretched Pastry
Hand-stretched pastry is one of those things that separates a good kitchen from a great one. It takes time, patience, and a feel for dough that only comes from repetition.
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This Pennsylvania Museum Keeps Vampire-Hunting Kits and a Chair Once Used in Exorcisms
Peacocks strutting past like they own the place are not the first thing you expect at a roadside stop, but that is exactly what happened when a giant T-Rex greeted me instead....
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More Than 8 Million Tacos Have Been Sold At This Family-Run Missouri Mexican Restaurant
Eight million tacos is the kind of number that makes you stop for a second. This Missouri restaurant has been serving them...
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A North Carolina Plumber Collected 13,000 Everyday Objects, Including What May Be the World’s Largest Collection of Washing Machines
Washing machines fill an old brick high school in North Carolina, and that is only the beginning. More than 13,000 everyday objects gathered by one plumber over 35 years pack every...
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This Minnesota Historic Site Was Once the Largest Fur-Trade Depot in the Region
Furs moved through here by the thousands, and this site handled more trade than anywhere else in the entire region once upon a time. Reconstructed buildings stand here, giving...
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This New Jersey Gas Station Hides An Indian Kitchen Serving Curry-Packed Burgers
A gas station is the last place you expect to find culinary genius, but this one is hiding a serious secret. Set behind the...
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Anyone Can Wander Into The Buddha-Filled Garden Behind This Tulsa Temple For Free Every Day
I pulled off a quiet road in Oklahoma expecting maybe five minutes of looking, and I stayed for well over an hour. A towering stone figure watched over rows of trees, little statues...
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Edgar Allan Poe Wrote Some of His Darkest Stories While Living in This Tiny Pennsylvania House
Raven statues do not usually guard private homes, but one stands outside a brick house in Pennsylvania like a sentry who takes his job very seriously. For about a year, a writer...
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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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