This Missouri Cabin Resort Shuttles You Upriver So You Can Float Back To Your Cabin
Most float trips end with a long, tired drive back to the car. This one ends at your front door. At a cabin resort tucked deep...
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This West Virginia Vegan Restaurant Has Die-Hard Meat Lovers Coming Back For Seconds
Some of the best meals in West Virginia hide in the smallest buildings, and this one nearly slips past you before you notice it. Word gets around, though, and folks who swore they...
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New Jersey Shoppers Are Finally Finding A Grocery Store That Makes Grocery Savings Possible
Finally, a New Jersey grocery store where your wallet gets a break. This local spot on Main Street has been quietly winning over shoppers with a surprising mix of friendly service...
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This West Virginia Bookshop Pours Local Coffee And Has Cozy Seating Where You Read All Afternoon
Tucked into Morgantown near West Virginia University, there is a little shop where you can grab a warm cup of local coffee, pick out a used book, and sink into a comfy chair for...
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Drive Straight Through the Trunk of a Living California Redwood at This Unusual Roadside Stop
A narrow gravel road climbs up through ferns and shade along a California highway, and then suddenly there it is, a redwood so wide that someone carved a tunnel right through the...
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This Beloved Alabama Chinese Restaurant Is The Ultimate Go-To Spot For Authentic Comfort Food
Two years is a long time to wait for egg drop soup. Especially when you already know exactly how it is supposed to taste. A...
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11 Highest-Rated Italian Restaurants In Oregon Right Now According To Locals
Ratings shift constantly, but a handful of Italian spots in Oregon keep landing at the top no matter how often lists get updated.
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This Virginia Outlet Mall Is Made For An All Day Shopping Trip
Shopping can be exhausting, but this Virginia outlet mall is made for an all day trip. With a wide range of stores, plenty of dining options, and comfortable seating areas, it...
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This One Of A Kind Virginia Restaurant Deserves A Spot On Your Next Road Trip
Some restaurants are worth going out of your way for. This one of a kind Virginia restaurant deserves a spot on your next road trip, a place where the food is creative, the setting...
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This Lesser-Known New Jersey Mountain Hike Is Where Locals Go To Avoid Crowds
There is a trail in New Jersey where the crowds vanish and the views feel like a secret. Locals have been keeping this spot...
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This Affordable Maryland Destination Makes Family Day Trips Stress-Free and Fun
Finding a family outing where nobody gets bored and the admission price does not immediately wreck the weekend budget can feel like its own competitive sport.
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You can dig for real fossils in Ohio and keep whatever you find
Imagine picking up a rock and finding a piece of an ocean that vanished millions of years ago. At Fossil Park in Sylvania, Ohio, that dream comes true, and the best part is you...
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This Mennonite-Owned Minnesota Butcher Shop Is A Meat Lover’s Paradise With Old-School Custom Butchering
Custom butchering feels like a lost art most places abandoned decades ago. Not here. Someone still cuts meat the old way, taking time most shops stopped bothering with long ago.
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Two-Headed Goats and a Unicorn Horn Fill the Rooms of This Bizarre North Carolina Museum
A brick building on a North Carolina riverfront held a two-headed goat in one case and something labeled as a unicorn horn in another, and I honestly could not decide which one...
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This Tiny Oklahoma Roadside Stand Serves Giant Hand-Dipped Corn Dogs Worth Pulling Over For
You pull over for a corn dog, and it is the size of your forearm. A tiny roadside stand in Oklahoma serves giant hand-dipped corn dogs that are worth every mile of the drive.
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Hand-Rolled Sushi Is Served Sixteen Floors Above The Street At This Missouri Rooftop Restaurant
Sushi usually belongs at street level, tucked into a quiet strip mall or a bustling downtown corner. But in Missouri, a rooftop lounge has redefined that expectation, serving hand-rolled...
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This Tiny New Jersey Steakhouse Looks Easy To Miss But Tables Keep Filling Up
A historic brownstone with walls that could talk and a steak that will make you forget how to speak. That is the vibe at this tiny New Jersey spot.
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Behind the Iron Doors of This California Saloon, Drinks Have Been Poured Since the Gold Rush Era
Those heavy iron doors looked completely sealed shut, and I felt a little silly tugging on them until they swung open easily. Granite walls stayed cool to the touch inside that...
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This Scenic Alabama Farm Turns Breezy Summer Nights Into A Magical Oasis Of Food And Music
Nobody checks the time because nobody needs to. Dinner is outside. The music is outside. The sky is doing whatever skies do...
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Most People Have Never Heard Of This Enchanting Waterfront Sanctuary Tucked Deep In Alabama
“Where is everybody?” That is probably the first question. There are no crowds spilling down the shoreline. No constant...
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11 Filipino Restaurants In Virginia Serving Authentic Island Cuisine
Filipino food is a celebration of flavor, a mix of sweet, sour, and savory that reflects the islands' rich culinary history. Virginia has a growing number of Filipino restaurants,...
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The Best Meal We Had This September Came From This Virginia Restaurant
We have eaten at a lot of places this month. Some were good, some were fine, and a few were forgettable. But the best meal we...
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Fried Green Tomatoes Put This Tiny Georgia Restaurant on the Movie Map
The screen door swung open and the smell of hot oil and cornmeal drifted out onto a Georgia porch where people were already rocking in their chairs waiting their turn.
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This Minnesota Roadside Ice Cream Spot Serves A Peach Scoop Locals Say Is Worth Pulling Over For
No drive-through, no big signage visible from the highway, just a small building that barely announces itself. Yet somehow enough people know exactly when to hit the brakes.
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The Lights Go Out Inside a Pennsylvania Cave for Lantern Tours Filled With 1800s Ghost Stories
That parking lot in Pennsylvania felt remarkably quiet once the sun dropped behind the hills, and I had come for a tour where guides in Victorian clothing lead you underground...
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Three Tons of Onions and Three Tons of Potatoes Disappear Every Week at This South Carolina Drive-In
That neon lighthouse sign on a South Carolina roadside looked like something off an old postcard, and the parking lot was already packed with pickup trucks, minivans, and one very...
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This Massive Indiana Salvage Warehouse Features Thousands Of Feet Of Rare Historic Antiques
A house can disappear and still leave a surprising amount behind. A staircase. A door. A light fixture.
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The Secret Hole-In-The-Wall Indiana Dining Spot Locals Wish Travelers Would Never Find
You are not dressed for a fancy dinner. Good. Neither is the food. This Indiana drive-in has been serving the same kind of unfussy...
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10 Stunning Indiana State Parks For Breathtaking Fall Colors That Feel Like New England
You know fall has arrived when someone in the car suddenly says, “Stop.” Not slow down. Stop. There is a hillside covered...
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9 Fun Things Families Can Do For Free In Virginia This September
September in Virginia offers a window of perfect weather, and the best part is that many of the season's best activities do not cost a thing. This list has nine fun things families...
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After Dark, Paranormal Investigators Search This 1840s Georgia Mansion for Unexplained Activity
A street in Savannah, Georgia gets quiet once the sun drops behind the live oaks, and that silence made the big stucco mansion look like a completely different building than the...
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This Affordable Texas State Park Is A Hiker’s Paradise
Five dollars barely covers a fancy coffee anymore, so getting an entire Texas state park for that adult entrance fee feels refreshingly reasonable.
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Since 1803, This Ohio Restaurant Has Been Feeding Travelers Longer Than the State Has Existed
Fried chicken and a two?century history wait inside that brick building on a small?town Ohio street. The place opened in 1803, the same year Ohio became a state, which means it...
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This Oregon Restaurant Serves Dim Sum And Shrimp Shumai Worth The Trip
Carts rolling between tables used to be the whole appeal of proper dim sum. Skip that tradition and you'd expect something's missing. Somehow, this spot proves that theory wrong...
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These 7 Ohio children’s museums turn a whole afternoon into hands-on fun
Rainy days and restless kids don't have to mean boredom, especially in Ohio. Across the state, children's museums pack their spaces with buttons to push, walls to climb, and pretend...
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This Unusual Texas Shop Is Packed With Vintage Oddities, Curious Collectibles, and One-of-a-Kind Finds
Vintage shopping becomes much more dangerous when there is absolutely no way to predict what will be sitting on the next shelf. This...
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This Ohio island bans most cars, and you get around by golf cart instead
Imagine an island where the main way to zip around is a golf cart, not a car. That is life on Put-in-Bay, a small village on South Bass Island in Lake Erie.
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13 Unusual Wildlife Parks In Texas That Belong On Your Bucket List
Texas wildlife parks get considerably more interesting once the standard zoo routine is taken off the table. Around the state,...
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The No-Frills Texas Diner Serving a Cheeseburger Locals Compare Every Other Burger To
A really good burger does not need bacon jam, edible flowers, or a paragraph on the menu explaining its personal journey. This...
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This Oklahoma Amish Bakery Makes The Kind Of Pies That Rarely Survive The Drive Home
What happens when you buy a pie that barely makes it past the car door? The answer is waiting at an Amish-style bakery in Oklahoma, where the pies are so good they rarely survive...
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9 Waterfall Trails In New Jersey That Are Surprisingly Easy To Complete
Who says you need to be a mountain goat to see a waterfall? New Jersey has plenty of trails that hand you gorgeous cascades without making you earn it with a brutal climb.
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This Tiny West Virginia Diner Serves The Best Cheeseburgers Locals Swear By
Tucked along an old turnpike near Romney, West Virginia, there's a little spot where the burgers taste like home and the folks behind the counter greet you like family. Rt.50 Biscuits...
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Customers Drive From Hours Away To Buy Premium Meats At This New Jersey Butcher Shop
You can find the usual cuts at any grocery store. But here? The cases are filled with premium meats that make you stop and...
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This Quiet Indiana Backroad Marks the Only Time the Civil War Invaded the State
The odds were terrible. Roughly 400 local volunteers had thrown together a makeshift defensive line when a Confederate force nearly six times larger came toward them.
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Boat Right Up To This Perfect Little Indiana Lake Bar For Laid-Back Waterfront Views
The parking argument ends the moment someone points at the water. “Why are we looking for a parking space?” Good question. At this Indiana lake restaurant, the better option...
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The Forgotten Haunted Hotel In Texas Where Ghost Hunters Go A Little Crazy
Most hotels want guests talking about the comfortable beds. This Texas building has spent years giving paranormal investigators considerably stranger material to discuss.
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This Retro Music-Themed Pizza Joint Is Hidden Inside An Old Oklahoma Schoolhouse
What do you get when you combine a 1940s schoolhouse, a pizza oven, and a Grateful Dead theme? A restaurant in Oklahoma that feels like a detour you did not plan, but the kind...
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10 Packed Oregon Fabric Shops With Trims, Notions and Bolts You Cannot Find Online
Bolts of fabric used to fill shops from floor to ceiling before online shopping flattened the whole experience into scrolling and guessing. A few places in Oregon never gave that...
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This Free Missouri Shrine Is Filled With Stone Grottos Hand-Built By A Single Monk
Twenty-three years of work went into building this Missouri shrine, and the man who did it used no power tools. A Franciscan monk carried stones, seashells, and pieces of broken...
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This 2.5-Mile New Jersey Trail Leads To Gorgeous Fall Foliage And Late September Is The Perfect Time To Go
You want fall foliage without the bumper-to-bumper traffic and crowded overlooks? This New Jersey trail is your answer. Two...
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Wake Up In New Hampshire Mountains At This State Park Surrounded By Lake And Forest Views
The morning mist rises off the water, and the first rays of sunlight hit the treetops. The air is crisp and cool, and there is no sound except the birds greeting the day.
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This New Jersey Shore Seafood Spot Is Winning Big Praise For Its Incredible Lobster Rolls
There is a spot on the shore that keeps winning people over with a single dish. The lobster roll is the one you will hear about first, loaded with chunks of fresh lobster in a...
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This Maryland Observation Deck Takes You 27 Floors Above the City for an Incredible View
Sometimes a change in perspective is all you need to see a place differently. This Maryland observation deck offers exactly that. Twenty-seven...
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There’s A Reason This Oregon Chinese Restaurant Has Lasted For More Than 90 Years
Restaurants rarely last ninety years. Most don't even make it to ten. So when one does, you have to wonder what they're doing that everyone else missed.
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This Walkable Oklahoma Lake Town Was Just Named A Must-Visit Summer Escape
A lakeside town designed for walking, with bike paths, cafés, and the largest lake in the state just steps away. That is exactly what you will find in a small Oklahoma community...
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This Secluded New Hampshire Lake Is Made For One Last Warm Weather Escape
You can hear the water lapping gently against the shore, and the only sound competing with it is the wind through the pines. This secluded New Hampshire lake is made for one last...
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This Grand West Virginia Cathedral Has A Stunning Sanctuary And Feeds 400 Appalachian Families Every Month
Tucked into the heart of Wheeling, the Cathedral of St. Joseph is one of West Virginia's true treasures. It draws people in with a breathtaking sanctuary ceiling and keeps them...
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10 Upcoming Fall Festivals In New Jersey You’ll Want On Your Calendar
Clear your weekends because fall festival season is about to take over. New Jersey is lining up pumpkin-filled celebrations,...
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This Historic Alabama Courthouse Hides A Cursed Attic Window Imprinted With The Terrifying Face Of A Ghost
“Do you see it?” That is a surprisingly difficult question to answer while standing across from a courthouse in Alabama. The attic window is high above the square, and at first...
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