Fletcher’s fries something close to 550,000 corny dogs at the State Fair of Texas over one 24-day run, and the same family has run that batter since 1942. That’s three generations at the fryer. These are the Texas State Fair foods locals build their whole day around, regardless of what new dish wins this year’s…
Sperryville has one road in, two blocks of Main Street, and 302 year-round neighbors. For 51 weeks a year, that’s plenty. Then the ridge behind town starts turning red and gold, and every car headed for Skyline Drive funnels straight through it. These are the Virginia mountain towns that fill up the moment the leaves…
Think an Illinois road trip means Chicago, then a straight shot down I-55 to St. Louis? It shouldn’t, if you ask us. Illinoisans keep their own list of places worth the extra exit, and many of them sit less than an hour off the interstate. These are the Illinois road trip stops worth pulling off…
Isle of Palms hands out a flat fine for parking against traffic, even on a public street with no meter in sight. That’s just one of several rules that catch visitors who assume a free street means no rules. These are the parking mistakes visitors in South Carolina keep making, and the price changes with…
Southern hospitality has a shelf life in Georgia, whatever the postcards from Savannah promise. Twenty-two percent of hosts admit they’ll flat-out tell a houseguest it’s time to go, according to a survey of 2,000 Americans conducted last fall. That same discomfort shows up in guest rooms across the country, not just in Georgia. So, how…
A waterfall in New York’s Finger Lakes region drops 215 feet, over 30 feet taller than Niagara Falls. Many New Yorkers have never heard of it. These are the upstate towns that New Yorkers, from the city and country alike, forget or never knew existed. Hammondsport Hammondsport is easy to miss if you don’t already…
There’s buying in bulk, and then there’s knowing how to milk Costco for all its worth. Longtime Costco members have picked up several tricks that newer shoppers usually learn the expensive or inconvenient way. These habits separate the seasoned Virginians from the rookies. 1. Costco Skips an Entire Department in Virginia Costco stocks beer and…
PennDOT recorded more than 2,000 crashes in five years along one Pennsylvania highway. Commuters still merge onto it every single day because turning back costs time they don’t have. Other Pennsylvania roads and bridges earn that same kind of dread. These are the Pennsylvania roads and bridges locals avoid at all costs, and the reasons…
A furnace technician outside Allentown takes a call at 6 a.m. on the coldest morning of the year. He already knows what he’ll find before he opens his truck door. A system that would have passed a $150 tune-up back in August now needs a same-day repair that costs three or four times as much….
For more than a century, mail carriers on a Wisconsin lake have leapt off a moving boat to make their deliveries. Nobody there thinks it’s strange. Across the country, a handful of towns still get their mail in ways the rest of America gave up on generations ago. These are the U.S. towns where a…
