The great American road trip has always come with a special breed of attraction: the giant roadside oddity, the "world's largest" something-or-other built to lure travelers off the highway and…
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There is a memory that Americans of a certain age share, and that younger generations find almost impossible to imagine: the Sunday when everything was closed. Not "some…
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Ask an American to picture the Old West and, somewhere in the montage, a lone rider will be galloping flat-out across an empty plain with a leather mail pouch,…
Ask a room to guess the world's most visited country and the answers scatter — America, surely, or China, or wherever the pyramids are. The actual list, tracked by the…
Ask Americans which country drinks the most coffee and the confident answers come fast — Italy, obviously, or America itself, land of the venti. Both wrong, and not close. The…
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Fifty-seven years after Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder, the machinery that got him there is still here — parked in hangars, suspended from museum ceilings, and lying on…