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Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Allen Ginsberg once gathered at a 200-year-old farmhouse on a winding road deep in the woods. The place ended up…
The sand on this beach has a pink tint, and people comb it for fossil shark teeth older than anyone can easily imagine. A few…
Sea monsters the length of a school bus once swam through the middle of Nevada. Their bones are still lying in the rock, right where…
Free horse-drawn wagon rides roll up and down Main Street while you shop. Santa poses for photos inside a cabinet shop. And the whole thing…
I’m convinced a plate of pumpkin ravioli counts as overtime pay. You’ve already clocked the hours, so why not collect? Here’s my take: fall in…
A canyon in Georgia was carved partly by bad farming in the 1800s, and its gullies now plunge up to 150 feet deep. I had…
A road trip across Mississippi taught us that great pizza often hides in plain buildings on quiet streets. We went looking for the pies worth…
Four entire towns were cleared and then covered by water, and their old roads still show up when the water drops. Yes, real roads with…
What’s better than eating breakfast inside an actual dining car? I’m convinced every family needs at least one meal that feels like a field trip,…
The ovens at this little bakery get going so early that the doors open at 3 AM on weekdays. That’s not a typo. Somebody is…
A small grocery shelf can hold Korean stone bowls, BT21 water bottles, and homemade Korean side dishes all in one trip. That’s a strange shopping…
This giant grocery warehouse moved into a building that used to be a toy store. Now the aisles hold cases of food instead of action…
A rainbow shows up here after dark, made by nothing but moonlight and river mist. It’s called a moonbow, and this waterfall is one of…
A rescue with the word Om in its name sits out on a quiet ranch road in the Nevada high desert. That one little word…
A pie menu that rotates between strawberry rhubarb, coconut cream, and peanut butter chocolate cream sounds like a dare. I’m pretty sure I’d lose that…
More than 100 stores sit under one sky here, and not a single receipt shows sales tax. I think that combo should come with a…
Lunch arrives on a three-tiered tower of real china, and the stained glass windows above your table once watched over a church congregation. That’s the…
A grocery chain named after a favorite dairy cow from Michoacán. That’s a real origin story, and I love it more than I probably should….
A cantaloupe gets its own festival in this farm town, complete with mud volleyball and a rodeo. More than 15,000 people show up every summer….
Grotto Falls lets you stand behind a 25-foot curtain of water in the Smokies. I still can’t get over that. You get to see a…
We only stopped for a quick round of putt-putt, and somehow the sun was setting when we finally left. Mini golf in Mississippi has a…
A great sub can hide inside a swap meet that opens only three days a week. Another sits deep in an office complex, far from…
Nearly 8,000 different ornaments fill one shop in southern Indiana. Many of them can be personalized for free, right there on the spot, with names…
Imported Italian cheeses and specialty cured meats fill a deli case just north of Boston. It sits near fennel-seeded finocchiona and Italian soaps, all imported….
Hot tamales in the Delta look nothing like the ones most travelers expect. They simmer in spicy juice instead of steaming, and they arrive soaked…
A walk-up pizza window with no dining room just landed in the MICHELIN Guide. Yes, a takeout window, in North Carolina. The pie that caught…
A rainy afternoon detour in Mississippi led us into an old brick depot, and our kids walked out talking about trains for the rest of…
Chili gets most of the attention in Cincinnati, but smoke tells a different story. Follow it to some seriously good barbecue counters. Turkey tips are…
One of my favorite finds for this list serves dinner inside a restored old town hall. Another sits in an old mill beside a bookstore,…
A gravel road, a hand-painted sign, and a chest freezer humming in a barn turned a simple drive through Mississippi into one of our favorite…
Cypress trees ring a spring-fed lake in north Mississippi, and autumn sets them aglow. By early November, the still water doubles every shade of orange…
More than 12,000 bolts of fabric sit inside a shop on a working dairy farm. To reach it, you drive across a real wooden bridge….
A small Catholic school just landed at No. 2 in Tennessee on TIME’s very first America’s Best Colleges list. Wait, what? It wasn’t one of…
This family-owned Tennessee ranch operates its own USDA-inspected harvesting and processing facilities, while also sourcing select products from trusted partners. The cattle, the cutting, and…
A quick stop off a Mississippi highway turned into the most talked-about part of our whole trip. The kids climbed down to a muddy creek,…
Quarry workers blasting rock in 1939 accidentally cracked open a cave full of glittering formations. A few months later, people were already lining up to…
Queens might be the most delicious borough in New York, and its Asian buffets are the proof. The smartest buffet strategy might be bringing along…
Every single day, this cheese plant turns about 1.8 million pounds of milk into more than 150,000 pounds of cheese. That is a staggering amount…
A quick stop for supper supplies on a Mississippi highway can turn into the best grocery run your family makes all year. The building is…
A grilled honey bun topped with ice cream sits on the menu of a diner that started life as a drugstore in 1923. That dessert…
A grandmother and her granddaughter once carried a cardboard mystery box home from a bin store and called the unboxing priceless. That box cost about…
Water slowly pours into a giant chamber, and the boat under your feet starts rising like an elevator. Up you go, several feet higher, while…
The burger here gets ground in the store every single day. That one fact tells you a lot about how seriously this supermarket takes fresh…
One building holds a sit-down restaurant, a fried chicken counter, a wing stand, and a full Amish bakery. That’s a lot of temptation under a…
Twenty-four hours. That’s how long the brioche dough takes before it becomes a doughnut at one tiny Illinois window, and the whole thing is vegan….
Monkey bread split into five sections, swimming in caramel sauce, and served with butterscotch on the side. That is a real breakfast order here. I…
One dairy farm on this list has been selling fresh milk to its neighbors since 1918. It still pasteurizes and bottles that milk right on…
A campground along Tennessee’s Natchez Trace Parkway lets you pitch a tent for zero dollars, and you can stay up to 14 days a year….
Our family pulled off a two-lane Mississippi highway for gas and left with a paper sack of warm tamales we had not planned on buying….
Finding ways to stretch a grocery budget has become increasingly important for families facing higher food costs. Discount supermarkets, wholesale markets, and specialty grocers can…
I’d go as far as saying fun is a kid skill worth keeping. Eight miles of rocky, narrow trails built for off-highway motorcycles make a…
Sand between your toes usually means an ocean nearby, yet one small New York village gets it from a lake. I love that kids can…
A carton of eggs from the supermarket never smells like a sunny morning, but a stop at a busy little market in Mississippi changed how…
Red, yellow, white, blue, and green stripes climb canyon walls in this corner of eastern Nevada. Minerals soaked into old volcanic rock did the painting….
Roughly 875,000 Christmas lights cover a single family home in Tennessee every holiday season. That is a jaw-dropping number of bulbs for one quiet house…
A truck stop restaurant that started in 1928 as a garage selling sandwiches is still serving an all-you-can-eat buffet today. That alone deserves a second…
Crab feels like an unlikely star in the middle of the desert. Nevada serves it anyway, with zero apologies. Some kitchens fly in live blue…
Sixteen hot dishes, eight cold salads, a bread station, and a dessert station all share one all-you-can-eat spread. That is a lot of table space…
Red bean, ube, matcha, and mochi rarely share one pastry case. This Nevada bakery makes them roommates. The shop sits on a second floor, so…
Fresh fish is a major attraction at one sushi counter in Wisconsin, where carefully prepared rolls give diners plenty to get excited about. That alone…
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