New Jersey Has 12 Portuguese Restaurants That Taste So Authentic You’ll Swear You Crossed the Atlantic
Every now and then in New Jersey, you find a simple-looking restaurant that turns an ordinary meal into a small trip you did not…
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Along a Rural Mississippi Highway, a Tiny Cafe Is the Only Breakfast for Miles That Road-Trippers Swear By
There is a stretch of the Natchez Trace Parkway where the road unrolls past quiet fields and not much else, and travelers start wondering where the next warm meal might turn up. Then a little cafe appears along the highway, the kind…
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This North Carolina Country Market Feels Like A Costco Of Amish Fresh Groceries And Fried Pies
Some of the best places in North Carolina hide just a few miles off the interstate, waiting for someone hungry and curious to stumble in. Picture a little roadside stop packed wall to wall with fat blackberries, farm-fresh eggs, warm…
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At This New Jersey Orchard, Warm Apple Cider Donuts Come With Pick-Your-Own Apples
A quick New Jersey errand can turn into a full fall plan when a simple farm stop has buckets, trees, and apple cider donuts waiting at the other end. The place feels unshowy in the best way, the kind of local stop…
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This Free Harvard Tree Museum Hides Winding Paths And A Whole Collection Of Blossoms Right Inside Boston
Most people never expect to find a sprawling living museum of trees tucked right inside a busy Massachusetts city. Yet there it sits, wide open and completely free, with winding paths that curl past blossoms gathered from all…
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Deep In Columbus This Topiary Park Recreates A Famous Painting Entirely Out Of Shaped Shrubs
Ohio has a way of hiding its most extraordinary places in plain sight, and few spots prove that better than a quiet corner of Columbus where an entire famous painting has been brought to life using nothing but carefully shaped shrubs…
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You’d Drive Right Past This Tampa Buddhist Temple, but Its Golden Grounds Are Free to Wander
Somewhere in Florida, tucked along a quiet river road you'd probably speed past without a second glance, there's a splash of gold and color that feels like it was teleported straight from Southeast Asia. Step through the gate…
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This Iowa Flea Market Fills a Historic Multi-Room Building With Antiques and Fair-Priced Finds
Some places refuse to give up their secrets on the first visit. There is a building in southwest Iowa packed with room after room of odd, old, and interesting things, where an original staircase creaks with every step and a hallway…
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This Pittsburgh Restaurant Brines Its Fried Chicken for Up to 36 Hours
One Pittsburgh restaurant takes its fried chicken seriously enough to brine it for up to 36 hours before it ever reaches the fryer. Pair it with enormous buttermilk biscuits, and you already have two compelling reasons to make…