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A runny-yolked egg is the crowing glory to a ham-and-cheese pancake.
The main hall with portrait of founder Pierre Faucher.
The special Coot is not for feeble appetites.

A Stack of 10 Places for Pancake-Lovers

From diners to sugar shacks, get your flapjacks, crepes, and silver dollars piled high.

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Including Old Sugar Mill Pancake House, Oudt Leyden, Modern Diner , and Franks Diner

The antique, embossed tin on the walls and ceiling of the Martin Hotel have an “Arabesque” design motif, popular at the time of establishment.
The Silver Cafe is a mom-and-pop diner that has been family operated for generations.
Everything about Ely’s famous pharmacy is a throwback, from the 1950s interiors to the old-timey soda fountain.
The Middlegate Station roadhouse in Nevada has existed since the Pony Express era
Pioneer Saloon

7 Spots Serving Up Nevada’s Wild and Free Spirit

From Wild West waystations to tiki bars, even the state’s smaller restaurants have big personalities.

Sponsored By Travel Nevada
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Including The Martin Hotel, Historic Silver Café, Economy Drug & Old Fashioned Soda Fountain, and Middlegate Station

Robert Frost Interpretive Trail.
‘The Choice’ by Morri Creech.
The original “Poetree.”
Stephansson House

17 Places That Are Odes to Poetry

From castles that inspired famous words to walls lined with sonnets and forests littered with haikus.

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Including Poetry Postbox, Robert Frost Interpretive Trail, Wall Poems of Charlotte, and Edinburgh Book Sculptures

Looking up from the entrance to the Hidden Beach.
The Wacky Taxidermy & Miniatures Museumv
A part of the SS Good News.
It’s half the size of that car!
Underwater Boston Tea Party.

10 Very Demure Places

See how these places are subtle, not screaming out for attention? Very demure. Very mindful.

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Including Hidden Beach, The Wacky Taxidermy & Miniatures Museum, Hulk of the SS Good News, and Carriolu Miniature Village

Sashimi on a stick.
Burgermeister at night, sailor’s delight
Although not a traditional Isaan dish, the pad thai is in fine form here.
Dig into this noodles after dark.

20 Fantastic Street Food Spots Around the World

Feast on freshly blow-torched tuna in Osaka or half-century-old soup in Bangkok.

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Including Wat Thai Temple Food Market, Nishiki Market, Burgermeister, and Hai Som Tam Convent

China Watermelon Museum
Aerial view of Hotel Unique with red pool on top
Names and messages left on the rock by passersby.
The Lincoln Watermelon Monument
The Watermelon House in DC

8 Celebrations of the Almighty Watermelon

This most majestic of summer fruits is all around us.

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Including China Watermelon Museum, Hotel Unique, Watermelon Rock, and Luling Watermelon Water Tower

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