A No. 1 song about a town its singer never saw, a monster that may have been an owl and a post office that answers Santa’s mail: 9 tiny towns with outsized legends.
A six-story elephant from 1881, a palace covered in corn and a duck with Model T taillights for eyes: 8 old roadside stops that never closed.
Mail by mule until the late 1930s, a jail that slid 225 feet and a cat who served as honorary mayor: one small town from each of America’s 9 most beautiful states.
A ring with a real atom chamber, a deed to one square inch of the Yukon and a whistle that fooled the phone company: 8 cereal prizes and what collectors pay for them now.
Cotton candy, Tater Tots, German chocolate cake: 8 foods that originated in America, and the real towns and years where each one began.
An 1801 inn, a store with 1886 nail bins and a parlor where a president was sworn in by lamplight: 9 Vermont towns that never got around to changing.
From a 3.6% Social Security raise to lower Medicare drug prices and new minimum wages, here are 15 new laws taking effect January 1, 2027.
