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A store with the slogan “Boots, Bullets, Britches, and Bologna” is not kidding around. It sells all four, plus hardware, camping gear, and homemade barbecue…
Leftover boxes might be the most common souvenir at one family-owned breakfast spot south of Chicago. Portions come up constantly when people talk about it,…
The rock under your sneakers here started as mud on the floor of a shallow saltwater sea. That happened about 430 million years ago, when…
One tiny red fishing shack on the Massachusetts coast is often called the most painted building in America. You can stand and stare at it…
Chocolate gravy is a real breakfast food in Tennessee. At least one small-town buffet sets it out right beside the cinnamon rolls, and I can’t…
Winter in Mississippi brings a sound you might not expect: the whistle of wings overhead as huge flocks of ducks drop out of the sky….
Free mineral water bubbles out of the ground in a downtown park, and anyone can walk up for a taste. The city counts 21 natural…
An online critic once called a former Transformers creative manager a has-been. He turned the jab into the name of his toy shop. I love…
More than 44,000 items sit under one roof here, and the membership card costs exactly nothing. That alone made me sit up. Most warehouse clubs…
Two-lane highways in north Mississippi have a way of hiding the best snack stops. We pulled off near a quiet farm expecting maybe a jug…
Nora Ephron once called one sandwich here the finest hot pastrami sandwich in the world. The Los Angeles Times went even further and dubbed it…
Midday summer temperatures here can climb past 100 degrees, and there is very little shade. That is why plenty of people skip this place until…
More than 100 remote-control vehicles fill one wall of this shop, stacked floor to ceiling. I have to admit, that sounds like the kind of…
A fish-shaped sea reptile longer than a school bus is resting under a roof in the middle of the Nevada desert. Its bones are about…
BBQ crabs on a buffet line. That alone should stop you mid-scroll, and this little restaurant serves them on weekend nights. The doors open at…
One steakhouse in Nevada sits on the second floor of a casino, and its steaks are not even the whole show. Another serves cabbage soup…
One of the best Mexican meals in Florida might come through a drive-thru window at 7 in the morning. I did not see that coming…
Custard, creme, or raspberry. That’s the tough choice waiting inside a single Bismarck at this bakery, and it’s only one roll on a very long…
A shoreline walk with no elevation gain sounds almost too easy. Let me tell you, it is real. This sandy stretch sits on the southeast…
A chef from Poland wants pierogi to become the next taco. Honestly, I love that kind of confidence. He also refuses to use a microwave…
A phantom hand rising from dark water. That’s the heart of an old Potawatomi legend recorded by the Wisconsin Historical Society back in 1942. The…
Only three people in the world know the secret family recipe for one cannoli filling. That detail alone makes me lean closer to the screen….
A 32-foot animated Barbie waves at passing cars here every winter. She shares the spotlight with life-sized dinosaurs, a monster truck, and a 400-foot tunnel…
The doors open at 5:30 in the morning, and the cream puffs come in two sizes: regular and mini. I appreciate a bakery that understands…
Corn husks and chiles for these tamales are imported from Mexico. Each tamal is rolled by hand, and the recipe hasn’t changed since 1980. That’s…
One of the most famous ghosts in American books has no head. The writer who dreamed him up is buried just steps from the ground…
Nothing about the plain office building off the interstate hinted at what waited on the second floor. We climbed the stairs in Mississippi expecting a…
Once a month, blacksmiths gather for a tradition called Iron in the Hat, where donated tools, metal, and equipment are offered in a silent auction….
Ghost stories come standard at this grand old hotel on an Arkansas mountaintop. It proudly bills itself as the most haunted hotel in America. The…
A replica of the U.S. Capitol dome sits on the roof of a barbecue restaurant. Yes, a capitol dome. On a barbecue joint. The dome…
Wagyu outside skirt steak, sizzling on a grill built right into your own table. That’s the top-tier perk at one all-you-can-eat Korean barbecue spot in…
Sold-out shelves by early afternoon tell you plenty about a bakery before you even taste anything. That was the first clue at a tiny storefront…
One diner in this city has a curved ceiling completely plastered with stickers, and it sits on the National Register of Historic Places. I love…
One campground on the highest mountain in Massachusetts has no road to your tent. You hike in with your gear, and your snacks spend the…
The beef gets roasted in-house every morning, and the bread comes from a legendary local bakery. The finished sandwich is said to run about double…
Only about 10 percent of hospitals in the country earn a perfect five-star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. One of them…
A clear creek runs beside this South Dakota trail for about a mile, and it leads to a waterfall that tumbles down in layers. That…
More than 1 million yards of fabric sit inside one warehouse. That number made me stop and read it twice. I can’t imagine how long…
In Indiana, an old limestone quarry has turned into a swimming spot with a sandy beach and bright blue water. I love that a place…
One South Deerfield shop smokes its meats in house over a real wood fire I love that detail so much. It feels like a recipe…
The world’s smallest penguins live in an 18,000-gallon lagoon here. It’s the only place on the West Coast where you can see this species. That…
The smallest size on the menu is called a baby, and it has been compared to a triple scoop somewhere else. That’s not a typo….
Omelets here can look like someone cracked half a dozen eggs into the pan. The cinnamon rolls show up huge. The pancakes are big enough…
A record store in Nevada that stays open until 10 PM every single night of the week sounds like a teenager’s dream. Add listening stations,…
A plate of seafood Alfredo here comes loaded with lobster, scallops, and shrimp. That’s not a garnish situation. That’s a full seafood lineup sharing one…
One Detroit-area deli actually suggests ordering a four-decker sandwich if you think you can handle it. Four layers of bread. That is not lunch. That…
More than 8,000 square feet of refrigeration and freezer space sits inside one warehouse. That’s just the cold section. Another 40,000 square feet holds dry…
Maryland-style crab cakes at an Italian restaurant in the South Carolina Upstate? That’s real, and I’m completely on board. It’s only one surprise on this…
My plan on the Mississippi coast was simple: grab a coffee and keep walking. Then a glass case full of pink macarons, glossy eclairs, and…
A paved riverside path here climbs up and over a busy interstate, then hands you a view of three places at once. From one easy…
A Carson Street butcher shop will turn your deer, elk, or even alligator into snack sticks and salami. Yes, alligator made the list, and I…
Carrot cake jam. Banana nut bread jam. Pickled beet and quail eggs sitting on the same shelves as raw Sourwood honey. That lineup belongs to…
A former U.S. president once ate at one of these spots, and the restaurant turned his order into a plate you can still get today….
One seafood tray on this menu is built to feed four to six people. It arrives loaded with shrimp, fish, lobster, mussels, potatoes, peppers, and…
A motel along a desert highway used to be called the Burro Inn, and the burros apparently never got the memo about the name change….
One Nevada leather studio makes everything by hand, handling custom pieces and larger orders while teaching beginners the craft. Then it turns around and teaches…
The family of a U.S. president helped start a cheese factory in 1890, and you can still buy cheddar made from their recipe today. That…
Fifteen thousand pounds of pastrami. That’s how much this deli reportedly serves every single week. Each sandwich gets piled with roughly a pound of hand-carved…
Some of the best tacos in Las Vegas come from a taco truck parked in a car wash lot. Yes, you can grab birria tacos…
Fire swept through this old mining town in 1932 and left only about 10 percent standing. What survived still stands in the California high desert,…
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