Bring A Wagon, Because These 5 Mississippi Church Thrift Stores Price Everything Like It’s 1985
Some of the best shopping in Mississippi happens behind a plain door next to a church parking lot. You walk in expecting a few dusty…
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Bring $40 And An Empty Backseat To These 6 Thrift Stores On Your Way To The Mississippi Coast
Some of the best road trip memories start with a quick stop you almost skipped. Mississippi is full of thrift shops where a few dollars…
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These 7 Mississippi Pumpkin Patches Turn A Quick October Stop Into A Whole Saturday Of Hayrides And Picking
Somewhere past the last gas station on a quiet Mississippi back road, a hand-painted sign points toward a field full of orange. You pull in…
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The Trails At This Surprising Mississippi State Park Wind Past More Than 50 Waterfalls
Most people picture Mississippi as flat farmland and slow rivers, so the sound of falling water deep in the woods catches you off guard. Tucked…
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This Old Mississippi Grocery Store Near Oxford Keeps Bringing Out Catfish And Hushpuppies Until Your Family Gives Up
Down a quiet country road in Mississippi, there is a small old building that looks like it might sell bread and nails. Step inside on…
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Pull Into These 5 Mississippi Swap Meets And Leave With A Trunk Full For Under $40
Two crumpled twenties were all I had the first Saturday I wandered into a Mississippi swap meet, and I left with a back seat full…
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The Fried Chicken And $12 Plate Lunch At This Small-Town Mississippi Cafe Are Worth The Drive From Hattiesburg
My stomach was growling somewhere along a two-lane Mississippi highway when I pulled into a little downtown block and followed a couple of pickup trucks…
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This Old Bookstore On Oxford’s Square Turns A Quick Escape From The Mississippi Heat Into A Two-Hour Family Afternoon
We only ducked inside to escape the Mississippi heat for ten minutes. Two hours later, nobody in our group wanted to leave, and the kids…
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This Mississippi Coast Day Trip Packs A Historic Mansion, A Lighthouse, And A Beach Before Lunch
We rolled into the Mississippi Gulf Coast early, hungry and half expecting just a quick look at the water before breakfast. Instead, the morning kept…
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The 12 Best Chinese Restaurants In Mississippi That Locals Trust And Adore
A plain strip-mall door, a paper menu taped to the glass, and suddenly the best egg roll of the year is sitting in front of…
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Families Still Count Down To Mississippi’s Pumpkin Festivals, And These 6 Run Every October Weekend
We only stopped for a bag of boiled peanuts and a place to stretch our legs, and somehow left with a wagon full of pumpkins…
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This Free Mississippi Refuge Off I-10 Is Bringing Back A Crane Found Nowhere Else On Earth
Pulling off the interstate for a quick leg stretch rarely leads to a lesson in survival, but one pine-scattered stretch of coastal Mississippi manages it….
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We Picked 9 Old-School Mississippi Chinese Buffets Where Families Still Leave Stuffed For Cheap
Our first plan was a quick bite, but a plain strip-mall sign with a red lantern in the window changed the whole afternoon. Inside sat…
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The 7 Mississippi Salvage Yards Where Old Building Materials Wait For New Homes
A single brass doorknob started it all for me, sitting in a coffee can with a dozen cousins, each one older than my grandmother. I…
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This Mississippi Ice Cream Shop Scoops House-Made Flavors Like Banana Pudding And Honey Lavender
A plain little storefront on a busy Mississippi road does not look like much when you first pull in. Then you step inside and see…
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This Humane Society In Tupelo, Mississippi Gives Hundreds Of Homeless Pets A Safe Place To Wait For Family
I pulled off a busy road in northeast Mississippi expecting a quick stop and a plain building. Instead, I found rows of wagging tails, curious…
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This Three-Story Museum On The Mississippi Gulf Coast Kept Our Kids Busy For Two Hours With Boats And Shrimp Nets
We only pulled over because the kids were asking about the shrimp boats bobbing in the harbor, and we figured a quick look would buy…
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Every Table Spins At This McComb, Mississippi Restaurant Where The Fried Chicken Keeps Coming Back Around
Picture sitting down to lunch in Mississippi at a table the size of a small trampoline, with ten people you have never met and a…
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The Pastry Cases At These 7 Old-Fashioned Mississippi Bakeries Are Reason Enough To Stop
The first clue was the smell: warm butter drifting out of a plain little storefront, the kind of place you could drive past a hundred…
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People Drive Across Mississippi Just To Load Up Their Plates At This Legendary Small-Town Buffet
Nobody warned me that a quiet old house under the oaks would serve one of the most memorable catfish suppers in Mississippi. I pulled in…
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The Fried Shrimp Basket At This Unassuming Mississippi Seafood Shack Keeps Families Driving In From Across The State
A plain little building on a quiet side road did not look like much from the parking lot. Then the smell of hot fryer oil…
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12 Mississippi Day Trips That Prove You Never Need A Plane Ticket For A Real Getaway
It started with a wrong turn, a growling stomach, and a gravel lot I almost drove right past. An hour later, I was standing somewhere…
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This Mississippi Model Train Museum Keeps Kids And Grandparents Exploring Elaborate Layouts Until Closing Time
Our plan that afternoon was simple: find air conditioning, find a snack, and keep a restless grandkid from melting in the Mississippi heat. The low…
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You Need A Full Weekend To Work Through The Antique Shops Packed Into This Tiny Mississippi Town
I pulled off an eastern Mississippi highway expecting nothing more than a leg stretch and a sandwich, and lost most of an afternoon to a…
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Seven Free Stops Along The Natchez Trace In Mississippi Turn One Drive Into A Whole Day
A two-lane road through Mississippi with no billboards, no traffic lights, and no trucks sounds almost too quiet to be interesting. Then you pull into…
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This Little Mississippi Donut Shop Still Fries $1.50 Potato-Flour Donuts From A Family Recipe Dating To 1960
The smell hits you before the sign does. Walk a block in one small coastal Mississippi town on a Saturday morning and you will catch…
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Kids Get 1,200 Acres Of Trails, Lake Shore, And History At This Mississippi State Park
Drive far enough into the northeast corner of Mississippi and the flat farmland starts folding into hills, which feels almost like a mistake the first…
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Nobody Leaves The Canton, Mississippi Square Empty-Handed When A Thousand Craft Booths Fill It Each October
My plan was a quick stop for gas and a biscuit, and instead I ended up walking a courthouse square in Mississippi that had been…
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We Ranked The 10 Best Old-School Chinese Restaurants In New York And Here’s Who Made The Cut
I have a soft spot for restaurants where the tea hits the table before anyone finishes deciding what to order. That little rhythm says a…
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10 Vintage Artisan Bakeries In New York That Still Use Old-School Recipes
The sound test matters. A proper cannoli shell should crack when you bite it, and good bread should answer back when you squeeze the crust….
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This New York Pumpkin Farm Becomes A Fall Bakery Destination For Only A Few Weeks Each Year
Waiting ten months for a donut sounds unreasonable until the ovens finally turn back on. One seasonal bakery makes autumn feel official the moment warm…
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This Hidden New York General Store Sits Dirt Cheap In The Middle Of Nowhere
A living pine tree growing through the middle of a store should probably be your first clue that normal shopping rules do not apply here….
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This New York Arboretum Hides 200 Acres Of Cold-Hardy Trees With Seriously Jaw-Dropping Views
Most people head into the Catskills thinking about waterfalls, hiking trails, or ski slopes. A 200-acre arboretum usually is not the first thing on the…
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This Old-School New York Diner Serves Comfort Food That Rochester Locals Say Is Worth A Road Trip
Rochester has plenty of places to eat, and only a handful that feel like a time machine with a coffee pot. One of them in…
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The New York Barbecue Joint Named One Of America’s Best Cheap Eats
Great barbecue usually means a road trip south. New York keeps one smoky exception near the waterfront, where oak logs burn slow and brisket rests…
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This New York Diner Serves A Breakfast So Massive It Takes Two People To Finish
Certain breakfasts are a meal. Others are a group project. Believe it or not, we’ve got the perfect pick, and it’s not the most expected,…
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The New York Apple Orchard Where Cider Donuts Are Almost Always Hot And Fresh Off The Fryer
Certain snacks taste better once the weather turns, and a warm cider donut sits near the top of that list. At one family farm in…
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New York Has A Chinatown Bookstore Where Calligraphy, Books, And Stationery Fill Every Shelf
Certain shops in New York ask you to look up instead of straight ahead. One flight of stairs leads to roughly 7,000 square feet of…
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This New York Lake Was Built Over Lost Towns And Their Ghostly Streets Still Reappear
A lake usually hides what came before it. Here, the past has a habit of showing back up. When the water drops, old road lines…
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The New York All You Can Eat Seafood Joint Where $90 Gets You Unlimited Crab Legs
New York has no shortage of places that will sell you an expensive plate of seafood. Very few operate on the rule that governs this…
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The New York Sausage Shop Where They Have Been Butchering The Same Way Since 1937
Curing, smoking, and slicing since 1937, in a shop that has watched the neighborhood around it turn over several times without changing much itself. Nearly…
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Locals Avoid This New York Swimming Hole Because The Water Is Freezing Year-Round
A waterfall in New York keeps its water cold no matter what the afternoon does. It sits along a quiet stretch of highway, close enough…
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The 45-Mile Upstate New York Drive That Twists Past Waterfalls, Rock Walls, And Tiny River Towns
Forty-five miles of road in New York curve past sandstone cliffs, small bridges, and hamlets where the water does most of the talking. It looks…
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This 65,000-Acre New York State Park Is Bigger Than Some Small Cities, Yet Somehow Empty
Sixty-five thousand acres of forest, lakes, hills, and quiet gravel roads sit in New York, and you can hike through them for an hour without…
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The Small Town New York Steakhouse Serving 20-Ounce Steaks Right On The Water
A full boat is built into the front of the building. That is not a decorative flourish somebody added later, it is the first thing…
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The Upstate New York Country Bakery Where $20 Buys Bread, A Loaf To Share, And A Slice Of Pie
Twenty dollars at a roadside bakery in New York goes further than the same twenty anywhere else you might spend it that day. Two loaves…
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The Forgotten New York Ghost Town With Ruins So Massive You Can See Them From The Highway
Drivers catch the vacant buildings for about half a second at highway speed. Then they wonder about them for the next fifty miles, which is…
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The Old-School New York Breakfast Spots Where The Cinnamon Rolls Are Bigger Than Your Plate
Ovens start humming before sunrise at ten places across New York, and by the time they open the cinnamon rolls are already too wide for…
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These 10 Upstate New York Towns Are Growing Faster Than Anyone Expected
Chip factories the size of small airports are going up in places that spent decades losing people. That is the loud version of what is…
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The Remote Adirondack Town So Underrated Even Most New York Locals Have Never Heard Of It
Nine miles of glacial lake, and the parking lot at the trailhead has room. That combination stopped being possible in most of this part of…
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The New York Diner Where Steak, Potatoes, And Dessert Still Cost What They Did In Another Decade
Since 1945, which means this diner has outlasted most of the restaurants that ever tried to compete with it. Steak, a mountain of potatoes, and…
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The All-You-Can-Eat Korean Barbecue In New York Where You Can Keep Ordering Until You Tap Out For $47
A grill arrives at your table and the competition begins. That is the honest description of what happens here. Order meat, cook it, order more,…
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The Cash-Only New York Campground Where People Still Line Up At Dawn For A Spot Under $30
A night here costs less than a large pizza. That number does most of the work in this story. Tall hardwoods overhead, pine needles underfoot,…
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These 10 Long Island, New York Country Bakeries Sell Out Of Fresh Bread Before Most People Are Awake
Bread keeps its own hours, and your alarm clock does not get a vote. Ten small bakeries across New York run this way. Ovens fire…
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This Brooklyn New York Thrift Warehouse Has Enough Furniture, Clothes, And Oddities For Hours Of Browsing
The best thrift stores make you forget what you came in for. A chair catches your eye, then an old lamp sends you down another…
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This Cozy New York Ukrainian Restaurant Serves Varenyky, Borscht, And Stuffed Cabbage Like A Family Supper
Varenyky do not need a makeover. Neither does borscht. In a city that reinvents itself every five minutes, there is something deeply satisfying about a…
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10 New York Lakes And Ponds So Clear Locals Say They Rival The Caribbean
Clear water does something funny to people. They stop talking, lean over the edge, and stare down like the bottom might reveal a secret. Around…
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This New York Bookstore Is Hidden Inside An Old Train Station Most Travelers Never Notice
Most people pass the old brick depot without giving it a second thought. That is exactly why finding books inside feels so satisfying. The trains…
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This Queens, New York Colombian Bakery Keeps Breakfast Crowds Coming Back For Arepas, Empanadas, And Sweet Bread
You can tell a bakery matters when people barely need to look at the menu. Morning regulars already know the drill, and warm paper bags…
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12 Restaurants In Upstate New York With Scenic Views Worth Booking This Summer
Dinner tastes a little better when you keep looking past your plate. Around Upstate New York, certain restaurants make that very easy. A table might…
