One Ticket In Union City Covers A Grist Mill, An Aquarium And A 120-Foot Tower
Driving the flat farm roads of northwest Tennessee, you would never guess a three-story museum and a 50-acre heritage park sit behind the soybean fields….
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You Sip Coffee While Adoptable Cats Curl Up Beside You At This Tennessee Café
Tennessee has plenty of places that promise a relaxing afternoon, but few deliver it with a purring kitten asleep against your leg. Tucked into an…
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Deep Under Tennessee Sits A Cavern Ballroom Where Tour Groups Stand Beneath A Crystal Chandelier
The road narrows and twists until you start wondering if the GPS has lost its mind, and then a small parking lot appears on a…
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Kids Meet The Cows At This Tennessee Dairy, Then You Take Home The Cheese They Made
There is a stretch of East Tennessee farmland where a working dairy quietly doubles as one of the best cheap family outings in the state….
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Families Order Scones, Clotted Cream And Pots Of Tea Inside A Tennessee Train Depot
Somewhere in Tennessee, there is a working rail yard where the smell of fresh scones drifts past locomotives waiting for repairs. Inside a restored depot…
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9 Tennessee Soul Food Kitchens Where The Same Regulars Fill The Tables Every Week
Somewhere in Tennessee there is a plate of smothered pork chops with your name on it, sitting under a heat lamp in a building you…
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Kids Watch Taffy Get Pulled At This Tennessee Candy Kitchen, Then Fill A Box With Their Favorite Flavors
Somewhere in the mountains of East Tennessee, there is a shop window where a machine slowly stretches a rope of warm sugar, over and over,…
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Tennessee Has A Freshwater Aquarium Wing Where Kids Pet Sturgeon And Meet River Giants
Most kids in Tennessee grow up thinking the coolest fish live in the ocean. Then they stand in front of a tank holding a catfish…
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This Tennessee Farm Churns Its Own Ice Cream From The Cows Grazing Right Outside
Some of the best food in Tennessee sits at the end of a road you would never drive down on purpose. Out in the northeast…
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Drivers Cross Half Of Tennessee For The Hand-Pattied Cheeseburger At This Roadside Diner
Some Tennessee restaurants sit right where you’d never think to look, tucked on a side street in a neighborhood full of houses and church parking…
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There’s A Zoo In East Tennessee Where Families Meet The Giraffes Up Close
Some of the best Tennessee outings are the ones nobody plans around. I went in expecting a normal afternoon of walking loops past animal habitats,…
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Hikers Still Climb This East Tennessee Fire Tower For 360-Degree Views Of Three Towns
Some of the best views in Tennessee do not come with a ticket booth, a gift shop, or a parking fee. There is a steel…
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We Walked 7 Tennessee Flea Markets And Found The Ones Where Vendors Still Haggle
Somewhere in Tennessee, on a two-lane highway with a hand-painted sign and a gravel lot, there’s a table where the sticker price is only a…
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Families Climb Aboard This Restored Tennessee Train For An Hour Through A Mountain Tunnel
Some Tennessee attractions announce themselves with billboards for twenty miles. Others sit in a grassy field off a suburban road, looking like nothing much until…
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This Elevated Boardwalk Carries Families Over A Tennessee Cypress Swamp Without Costing A Dime
Somewhere in West Tennessee, between fast-food signs and interstate exit ramps, a wooden walkway lifts you straight into a swamp full of cypress trees. You…
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This Tennessee Ferry Carries Your Car Across The River For Just 75 Cents
Somewhere in Middle Tennessee there is a two-lane road that simply stops at the water, and instead of a bridge you get a flat steel…
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A British Author Founded This Tennessee Village In 1880, And Walking It Still Costs Nothing
Somewhere on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee, a wrong turn off a two-lane highway drops you into a cluster of gabled Victorian houses that look…
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This Tennessee Meat-And-Three Serves Plates So Big You’ll Wonder How Lunch Stays This Cheap
Some of the best food in Tennessee comes out from behind a steam table, on a plastic tray, handed over by someone who calls you…
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9 Tennessee Amish And Mennonite Stores Where Cash Buys Groceries No Supermarket Carries
Somewhere between a tank of gas and a gravel parking lot, Tennessee hides a whole grocery economy that never made it into the chain stores….
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10 Enormous Tennessee Secondhand Shops Where $100 Furnishes A Whole Room
A rainy Saturday in Tennessee sent me ducking into a warehouse-sized resale store I had driven past a hundred times without thinking twice. Two hours…
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This Quiet Tennessee Mountain Highway Turns Gold In October And Barely Anyone Drives It
Somewhere in the southeastern corner of Tennessee, there is a stretch of pavement that climbs so high the temperature drops while you drive it, and…
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Parents Walk Out Of These 7 Sprawling Tennessee Thrift Stores With Two Full Bags For $25
A rainy Saturday, a restless kid outgrowing every pair of jeans in the house, and twenty-five dollars in the console cup holder. That combination has…
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This Free Tennessee Museum Keeps Ancient Egypt, Real Fossils, And Lucy Under One Roof
Some of the best Saturdays in Tennessee cost nothing at all. Tucked onto a university campus in the eastern part of the state sits a…
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Kids Watch Mules Turn The Press At This Tennessee Sorghum Mill, And You Drive Home With Syrup
Somewhere on the Upper Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee, a gravel lane ends at a barn where the sweetest smell you can imagine drifts out the…
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Riders Plan Whole Routes Around This Tennessee Riverfront Hangout, And Families Fit Right In
Some of the best stops in Tennessee never advertise. You find them because a two-lane highway keeps curving along a river and eventually somebody points…
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This Tennessee Outlet Mall Where $50 Still Loads A Cart With Name Brands The Kids Actually Want
Back-to-school shopping in Tennessee usually ends one of two ways: a cart full of stuff nobody wanted, or a receipt that ruins the week. There…
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Parents Fill A Bag For Under $10 At These 15 Enormous Tennessee Secondhand Shops
A rainy Saturday in Tennessee sent me looking for anything indoors and cheap, and I ended up in a warehouse the size of a grocery…
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This Mennonite Bulk Food Store In Tennessee Sells Baking Flours And Fresh Bread Worth The Drive
Some of the best food shopping in Tennessee happens on roads without a single traffic light. Out past the farm fields of the middle part…
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Your Whole Carload Watches Two Movies For One Price At This Tennessee Drive-In
Somewhere east of the interstate noise in Middle Tennessee, a two-lane road curves past hay fields and mailboxes until a pair of tall white screens…
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You Need A Full Afternoon For This Enormous Tennessee Antique Store-And $30 Goes Far
Some of the best Tennessee stops don’t announce themselves. This one sits on a busy commercial road where you’d expect tire shops and taco spots,…
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A Tiny Tennessee Farm Town Hides A 50-acre Museum Kids Never Want To Leave
Driving through northwest Tennessee, you get used to a certain rhythm: soybean fields, grain bins, a tractor easing onto the shoulder. Nothing about that scenery…
