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A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Thousands of objects from a steamboat wreck reveal an extraordinary snapshot of American frontier life in 1865.

More than 10,000 spoons, some more than a century old, are gathered here.

Romance fans worldwide make the pilgrimage to this group of historic covered bridges in rural Iowa.

This 19th century Sioux City candy company is the home of the Twin Bing, a historic, chocolate-covered treat.

What was once a communal kitchen now serves heaping portions of hearty German fare.

Step back in time while shopping inside this local store.

Piled high inside this warehouse and coffee shop are salvaged goods that span every corner of the globe.

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.

An old town theater converted into a celebration of the hobo legacy.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

This zombie-themed restaurant stands out in the heart of corn country.

Explore an underground labyrinth of miniature railroads.

The oldest functioning restaurant in the state of Illinois, operating since 1847.

The only dome home to be owned or occupied by dome inventor Buckminster Fuller.

After an Illinois church was struck by lightning and burned down, Frank Lloyd Wright designed this replacement.

The first home and studio that belonged to the famous architect.

Just outside Chicago, one of the few traditional Mongolian restaurants in the U.S. serves a misunderstood cuisine.

Chicago’s last original drive-in restaurant is a family-run hot dog joint that started in 1948.

This diner serves Route 66 nostalgia and what it claims is the 'original' hot dog on a stick.