Few foods reveal regional American identity quite like the sandwich, a seemingly simple format that takes on dramatically different personalities depending on where it's made. From the specific bread to…
Ask someone to picture a donut, and most Americans think of the same simple glazed ring, but the country's actual regional donut traditions are considerably richer and more varied, shaped…
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Between the 1840s and 1860s, hundreds of thousands of Americans loaded covered wagons and set out on the grueling, months-long journey along the Oregon Trail, and what they packed…
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On the eastern shore of California's Salton Sea, the largest lake in the state, sits Bombay Beach, a town of fewer than 300 people that has lived several remarkably…
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In Quebec's Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, roughly five miles from the town of Chambord, sits Val-Jalbert, a remarkably intact company town that offers visitors something few other ghost towns can: the…
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High in the Garnet Mountains east of Missoula, Montana, at an elevation of roughly 6,000 feet, sits Garnet, a gold rush boomtown whose weathered wooden buildings remain standing decades…