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Crab legs, oysters, and other seafood favorites have appeared on this Friday night buffet, although the exact selection changes weekly. Then somebody carves prime rib…
City leaders here hit the pause button on new apartment construction, and they kept extending it. That’s not something you hear from a sleepy lake…
Down a quiet country highway in southern Mississippi, a sign for fresh milk pulled us off the road and into a small farm store. Inside,…
Steaks arrive at one Northwoods table still sizzling so loudly that heads turn, like fajitas at a Mexican restaurant. I love that a plate of…
Nine thousand cats have found forever homes through one rescue, and most of them never had to wait inside a cage. The adult cats here…
One Italian hoagie at a Nevada deli is so big that a single sandwich can cover lunch today and lunch tomorrow. That’s the kind of…
Gravel crunched under the tires, and the kids in the back seat went quiet the moment they spotted goats by the fence. Out in the…
A working pharmacy fills prescriptions while the grill up front flips double burgers with fried onions. That combo alone deserves a second look. The soda…
Tomahawk steaks, bison, fresh brats, and a smoked bone for the family dog can all land in one shopping bag here. That is a pretty…
I love that nobody tried to hide the building’s past. The old church bones stay front and center while minerals, gemstones, jewelry, and beads fill…
Boston baked beans on a pizza sounds like a bold move. I’m convinced it tells you everything about this place. The bean pie here comes…
A bakery in Ohio’s Amish Country still uses recipes that started in one woman’s home kitchen back in 1986. Those recipes now turn out more…
Fresh hot donuts show up once a month at a little country grocery that also sells chicken feed and goat feed. That combo alone made…
One Wisconsin deli sells its hot subs in a size simply called Grande. I love that they skip the polite word large. Grande sounds like…
Thousands of initials are carved into the wooden booths of one hot dog counter on this list, and it has been serving chili-topped franks since…
More than 10,000 model kits fill one small hobby shop. Some are brand new, and some are old or downright obscure. That number alone made…
Grocery store meat prices keep climbing, and that pushed me to start looking at farms around Mississippi instead. What I found surprised me: quiet gravel…
Queen Victoria hands out a prize for the best carolers at a gazebo. Ebenezer Scrooge might grumble at you on the sidewalk. And none of…
One breakfast spot in Illinois serves a pancake roughly the size of a large pizza. I can’t stop thinking about the size of the plate…
Free appliances usually come with a catch. At one beef farm, the catch is ordering half a cow, and then a chest freezer comes along…
Mississippi sits right next door to Louisiana, and you can taste that friendship in its gumbo pots. The best spots are not always fancy, and…
One festival here has served roughly 7,300 pounds of beef and 1,000 loaves of bread. That’s not a typo, and it’s not a stadium. It’s…
Crab legs, shrimp, and crawfish keep landing at your table until you wave the white napkin. Forks mostly sit there looking decorative. The base boil…
One restaurant in this harbor city doubles as an art gallery inside a building where an American painter once ran his art school. I have…
The doors at one Nevada donut counter swing open at 3:30 in the morning. They stay open only until the last tray is empty, and…
A burger stacked on a three-piece buttered and toasted bun is waiting for you at 3 a.m., and nobody will rush you out the door….
A racetrack built for speed spends every winter asking drivers to crawl. Nobody complains, because the slow lane glows. More than six million LED lights…
Pecans glazed with cinnamon, praline, and something called Sweet Georgia Heat all share shelf space at one Georgia farm market. That lineup alone had me…
The bakery literally puts an exclamation point in the name. They’re called Giant! Cinnamon Buns, and that punctuation feels like a fair warning. The buns…
Fried catfish tastes better when the whole table reaches for it at once. Have you ever split a platter that needed two sets of hands?…
The rocks on this short desert walk come in red, pink, orange, white, purple, and even green. Those colors started as shifting sand dunes about…
A former big-city mayor put his name on a steakhouse, then parked it inside a glass dome overlooking one of the most famous streets in…
A jalapeño stuffed with cream cheese and brisket, then wrapped in bacon, goes by the name Texas Twinkie. I learned that and immediately needed a…
This place features an enormous bead bar filled with colorful choices. Shoppers can browse a wide selection of crystal and glass beads for their next…
A mole made with 20 ingredients is waiting across the street from an airport. That’s not a typo, and it’s not a food court gimmick…
A school with a campus cheese club just beat almost every regional university in the Midwest at teaching. U.S. News & World Report ranked it…
Your guide on this underground ride might have worked these exact tunnels for a paycheck. Would you trust anyone else to lead you into a…
The mole here takes three days to make and uses 26 ingredients. Three days! I can barely commit to a sandwich for three minutes. That…
Pulling off a two-lane highway in Mississippi for a quick snack can turn into the best part of a family road trip. Wooden shelves stacked…
Families earning up to $200,000 a year could soon pay zero tuition at one of the top-ranked schools in the country. Yes, really. That number…
A brick building from 1885 now holds an open-hearth grill and a baby grand piano. Western New York clearly takes its beef seriously. Another dining…
A row of upside-down cast-iron stove legs lines the roof of this place. Yes, actual stove legs, standing guard like a quirky fence against the…
The first thing that lands on your table here is a basket of bread and a pile of pickles. Nobody ordered them, and nobody needs…
Missing the turn was the first clue, because so many cars lined the lot that the sign was hard to spot. After circling the block…
A butcher shop with a drive-thru window and a brat flavor called VooDoo deserves your full attention. Yes, you can pick up handmade sausage without…
A town that welcomes more than 200,000 festival visitors sounds like a great place for local businesses. But try finding a parking spot when everyone…
Garlic, dill, and chive cheese curds made from the milk of cows grazing right outside the shop window. That alone would get me in the…
Baked spaghetti topped with meatballs, pepperonis, and mushrooms. That’s a real dinner order at one Tennessee spot, and I’d probably start right there. The spaghetti…
Nineteen kinds of donuts, hand-cut from scratch every single day, starting at 5 in the morning. That’s the daily routine at one little family-owned shop…
More than 20 kinds of handmade sausage come out of one family kitchen, and one of them is packed with Swiss and cheddar cheese. Another…
Some of the subs at this corner market reportedly weigh up to two and a half pounds. That’s not a lunch. That’s a commitment with…
An Italian restaurant sits behind a pink door in a narrow alley, and some nights a trapeze artist swings above the dining room. I had…
Guinness once called a three-mile mural on a river levee here the longest painting in the world. Students started it back in the 1970s, and…
A meat market with its own drive-thru window and an espresso shop under the same roof? That pairing alone deserves a second look. The beef,…
The machine shop doors are open, and crews inside are still fixing century-old steam locomotives. You can walk right in and watch. Much of the…
Close to this lake village, you can mail a postcard from Hell. Yes, the real Hell, Michigan, where the post office sends your mail out…
One sausage maker on this list has been smoking Portuguese chouriço since 1923, and you can still buy it at the counter where it’s made….
One snake at this famous dune park flips onto its back, sticks out its tongue, and plays dead when it feels threatened. It even adds…
Twenty dollars does not sound like much when a Christmas list keeps growing. In Mississippi, though, that single bill can stretch further than most families…
More than 100 varieties of sausage once filled the cases at one South St. Louis County butcher shop. That number alone makes my grocery list…
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