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In 1822 a journalist wrote America's first guidebook and sent everyone from New York City to Niagara Falls. The route still works.

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Houdini spent his boyhood in Appleton and claimed the town for the rest of his life. Wisconsin still claims him back, so read how the escape artist got made.

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Thirty-five artworks are hidden in the Seattle pavement, but you have to use your phone to see them.

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Most countries send you home with a fridge magnet. Italy sends you home with a hand-painted ceramic plate you actually ate off of.

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In 1919 an axe murderer wrote to the New Orleans papers promising to spare any house playing jazz. Louisiana played jazz all night, and you can still walk the streets where it happened.

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For one hour on Wednesday, Bunol hands 20,000 strangers 150,000 kilos of tomatoes and stands back. Spain caps the tickets, so book before you fly.

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Tokyo is putting a sushi conveyor belt on the top deck of a bus, and yes, they tested what happens when it brakes. Japan starts the tours on October 10, twenty seats at a time.

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There are hundreds of miles of flood tunnels running beneath the Las Vegas Strip, and people live in them.

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Twenty six maps of New York City: Queens by the languages spoken in it, Staten Island by kung fu, the Bronx by what it survived. Pick one and go walk that version of the five boroughs.

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Be a part of the largest gathering of people dressed as dinosaurs. Vernal, Utah had enough dinosaurs last year and lost the record on a counting technicality. The mark to beat is 682. The rec centre will lend you a costume if you turn up on the 28th.

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Search data says Michigan wants peanut butter and jelly, Delaware wants an ice cream sandwich, and Louisiana is well, you know.

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Twenty miles from Denver, Thornton has opened a library that lends tents, binoculars and 650 other outdoor things.

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Sacramento's street grid on a folded map, ready for a self-guided walk through downtown and the neighborhoods around it.

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A $25,000 prize is hidden somewhere in Grand Forks, tied to Prohibition bootlegging routes. The book of clues drops Friday morning; the hunt runs until someone finds it.

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Two metal detectorists near Carlisle dug up a gold armband from around 1100 BCE, then found two more in the same field. Together they weigh 18 ounces and are valued past $400,000.

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Rome is keeping the Colosseum open to 11:30pm on weekends because daytime is now too hot to queue in. The Pantheon and Milan's Castello Sforzesco are staying late all August as well.

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The earliest written music with two melodies running at once is a short chant praising Saint Boniface, set down around the year 900 and unnoticed in the British Library until 2014.

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The earliest written music with two melodies running at once is a short chant praising Saint Boniface, set down around the year 900 and unnoticed in the British Library until 2014.

https://t.co/Pdyo9GV4xT

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A new photo book catalogues 60 bodega cats across the five boroughs by name and corner, from Oreo in Park Slope to Prince in SoHo, alongside a push to make them legal residents.

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Someone left the New Bedford Whaling Museum a one-star review calling it the worst aquarium ever. The museum put the line on merchandise and sold the insult back to the internet.

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