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Traditional Easter pudding, best served untraditionally.
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Stinking Bishop
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Ingredients & Condiments
’Nduja
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Eureka, North Carolina
Goldsboro Nuclear Mishap Marker
A sign remembering the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.
35.4930, -77.8593
Goffstown, New Hampshire
Goffstown Giant Pumpkin Regatta
Row, row, row your pumpkin quickly down the stream.
43.0198, -71.5998
College Station, Texas
Century Tree
Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.
30.6159, -96.3414
Toronto, Ontario
Arthur Conan Doyle Room
One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.
43.6718, -79.3868
Binz, Germany
Treetop Tower of Rügen
A long spiraling walkway winds through the surrounding woodlands, rising up above a copper beech tree at the center.
54.4345, 13.5579
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