Since 1937 This Nebraska Sale Barn Cafe Has Fed Ranchers Hot Beef Sandwiches On Auction Day
One small-town sale barn has earned a name for quality cattle and what one rancher called smokin’ hot…
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How 10 Nebraska Sculptures Turned An Empty Stretch Of Interstate Into A Roadside Art Trail
One of the rest areas on Nebraska’s busiest highway has a steel sculpture with a title that sparked…
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This Nebraska Market Feels Like A Trip To Mexico, From The Spice Aisle To The Fresh Tortillas
Somewhere in Nebraska, a grocery store employee makes corn tortillas by hand. Sometimes she’ll even offer a stack…
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Prairie Agates Turn Up In The Gravel Bars Where Families Hunt Along Nebraska’s Platte River
Nebraska picked a rock as its official state symbol in 1967, and it wasn’t granite or marble. It…
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10 Giant Nebraska Thrift Stores Where Twenty-Five Dollars Still Fills Whole Bags With Finds
Somewhere in Omaha, a winter coat, a curtain rod, a book bag, and a vest once rang up…
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9 Nebraska Christmas Stores And Lights Displays Already Glowing Before Thanksgiving Arrives
One small Nebraska town officially calls itself the state’s Christmas City. Inside it sits a shop that sells…
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This Nebraska Comic Shop Brews Locally Roasted Coffee And Has Quiet Corners For Diving Into Comics
A comic shop that once shared the title of best comic store in the world also pours locally…
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This Nebraska Bookstore Opens Its Garage Door On Nice Days So Readers Linger Over Coffee Until 10 PM
On nice days, one whole side of a certain bookstore rolls open and lets the breeze drift right…
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Fort Robinson Still Keeps Its 1870s Adobe Officer Quarters Standing In Nebraska’s Pine Ridge
You can book a night inside walls that went up in 1874, and the original adobe is still…
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What Most Nebraskans Get Wrong About Ashfall Is That The Digging Still Happens Every Summer
Somewhere in northeast Nebraska, whole rhino skeletons lie in the ground right where they fell about 12 million…
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10 Nebraska Lakes Where Migrating Ducks And Geese Land By The Thousands This November
Roughly 90 percent of the mid-continent white-fronted goose population leans on Nebraska wetlands during migration. That number stopped…
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Here Are 7 Nebraska Hobby Shops Still Stocking HO-Scale Track After The Big Chains Pulled Back
One small-town Nebraska train store bills itself as the largest model train shop between Denver and Chicago. That…
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Inside A 1931 Art Deco Train Station, This Nebraska Museum Still Runs An Old-Fashioned Soda Fountain
A former train station waiting room with a 60-foot ceiling now shares space with a soda fountain pouring…
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Hidden In Nebraska’s Grasslands Are Rare Agates That Rock Hunters Treasure
Some of the most prized agates in the region are just lying on the ground, waiting for a…
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This Lincoln Diner Bakes So Many Pies That Choosing Just One Slice Becomes A Real Nebraska Dilemma
Somewhere in Nebraska, a diner keeps a pie list so long that butterscotch pecan and custard have to…
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This Nebraska Museum Displays 2 Giant Mammoths That Died With Their Tusks Locked In Battle
Two bull mammoths shoved tusk against tusk on the western Nebraska plains, and they never pulled apart again….
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Climb Upstairs, Feed Lettuce To Giraffes, And Even Pet Them At This Nebraska Zoo
A giraffe’s dark tongue can stretch about a foot and a half, and in Nebraska it might curl…
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Chimney Rock Has Guided Travelers Across Nebraska For More Than 180 Years And Still Towers Over The Valley
More pioneer diaries mention one skinny stone spire than any other landmark on the Oregon Trail. Wagon families…
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Every Fall Thousands Of Pumpkins Pile Up Across This Nebraska Farm Where Kids Ride A Barrel Train
Pigs race here. Dragons put on a show. Somewhere between the two, kids roll past orange fields on…
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Is The Arbor Day Celebration Really Nebraska’s Gift To The World Since This 1872 Farm Started It
An estimated one million trees went into Nebraska soil on a single day in April 1872. That was…
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This Small Nebraska Town Is Known As The Czech Capital Of America, And Its Museum Is Full Of Surprises
A real human skeleton, donated by one of the town’s early doctors, shares a roof with delicate embroidered…
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Started As A Small 1880s Church, This Nebraska Building Now Pours Its Space Into An Art Gallery
A small church built back in the 1880s now spends its days hosting paintings, pottery classes, and the…
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Generations Of Nebraskans Have Lined Up For Hand-Pressed Burgers At This Decades-Old Bellevue Bar & Grill
The burger here starts as a fresh 6.5-ounce ball of beef. A cook presses it flat by hand…
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Get A Head Start On The Holidays At This Christmas Store Worth A November Trip
One Omaha shop sells the kind of glowing outdoor displays that make you slow down on a neighborhood…
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Up Near The Pine Ridge A Rebuilt 1837 Trading Post Sits Beside This Nebraska Fur Trade Museum
The hearthstones in this little log trading post were laid down in 1837, and you can still see…
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Started In A Gas Station Garage, This Nebraska Ice Cream Shop Now Draws Lines Down The Block
One milkshake at this ice cream counter packs a full pound of ice cream into the cup. Yes,…
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Every Runza Started At This Lincoln Nebraska Stand In 1949 And The Recipe Hasn’t Budged
Ground beef, cabbage and onions baked inside fresh yeast dough. That simple bundle has been feeding Nebraska since…
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A Nebraska Windmill Factory Stopped Work In 1991 And Its Tools Are Still Right Where Workers Left Them
The workers clocked out in 1991, and the factory floor was simply left as it was. The tools…
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Started As A 1920s Bank, This Nebraska Building Now Pours Coffee From Inside The Old Vault
Your next latte could come from inside a bank vault that once guarded a small town’s money. Yes,…
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Union Pacific’s Golden Spike Tower Lets You Watch Trains Sort Across The World’s Largest Rail Yard In Nebraska
Railroad cars roll down a man-made hill, then coast by gravity onto the right track to join their…
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This Nebraska Cold War Missile Site Still Shows The Concrete Silo Doors Left Behind In The 1960s
One room in this museum has drawers you’re actually allowed to pull open. Inside sit pieces of military…
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Pioneers Steered Toward This Nebraska Rock More Than 170 Years Ago, And It Still Stands Beside Courthouse Rock
Covered wagon travelers looked at a lump of clay and sandstone on the Nebraska plains and decided it…
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With Hobby Lobby Fabric Aisles Shrinking, 5 Nebraska Quilt Shops Keep Bolts Of Cotton Stocked
One small-town Nebraska quilt shop pulled down its interior walls just to make room for more fabric. I…
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Farm-Fresh Plates Come Straight From The Garden At This Lakeside Family Restaurant In Nebraska
Bison meatloaf, heirloom tomato soup, and a slice of Hubbard spice cake have all appeared on the same…
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Kool-Aid, Planets And Prairie Wildlife Share One Beloved Nebraska Museum Floor Plan
A giant smiling pitcher has a permanent home inside a Nebraska museum, and he truly earned it. The…
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Here’s Why 5 Nebraska Factory Tours Make A Better Day Trip Than Another Scenic Pull-Off
The last intact historic windmill factory in the United States is still standing, and it’s in Nebraska. Its…
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This Old-School Nebraska Steakhouse Is A Family-Owned Landmark Still Hand-Cutting Its Steaks
Warm breadsticks land on the table before the steaks, and somehow they nearly steal the show. That is…
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The Nebraska Antique Mall Where Cowboy Boots And Vinyl Records Fill Three Floors Of Booths
A pair of cowboy boots waits upstairs, a crate of old records hums downstairs, and the whole thing…
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Kids Ride A Real 1890s Steam Train Around This Nebraska Park Every Summer Weekend
A steam engine built in Austria in 1890 still pulls passengers around one of Nebraska’s busiest family outings….
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Over 400 Kinds Of Loose Tea Fill Glass Jars Along The Walls Of This Nebraska Shop
One Nebraska tea shop celebrated Star Wars Day by mixing up blue milk from The Mandalorian. The blue…
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6 Nebraska Outlet And Discount Stores Where Shoppers Fill Whole Afternoons Hunting Brand-Name Deals
One Nebraska outlet mall has its own phone app, built just to help you find the best deals…
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Where Lincoln Handles Nebraska’s Everyday Court Business, With A Famous Dome Just Blocks Away
A speeding ticket, a small claims dispute and a landlord-tenant case can all end up at the same…
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A Highway Bridge Turned Museum Spans Interstate 80 In Nebraska And Walks You Across 170 Years Of Westward Travel
A covered-bridge-style museum stretches right over six lanes of Interstate 80. Semis rumble beneath it while you stroll…
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This Huge Nebraska Antique Mall Packs Vintage Treasures, Bargain Prices And A Cafe Under One Roof
Pay with cash at one big antique mall off I-80, and you can grab a piece of Baker’s…
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Pawnee Earth Lodge Hollows From The 1800s Still Dent The Ground At This Nebraska Park
A single brick building is all that remains standing from a campus that once taught hundreds of Native…
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The Unassuming Nebraska Kolache Spot Where You Look For A Banner And Park On Gravel
A banner by the door and a gravel lot. That’s the whole roadside clue for one seriously good…
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6 Nebraska Mexican Restaurants Where The Same Families Come Back To Eat Every Week
One Kearney taqueria keeps its food so affordable that a filling meal can land in the lowest price…
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This Nebraska Living History Farm Brings Back 1920s Farm Life And Most Folks Have Never Visited
A farmer spent years restoring more than twenty old tractors, engines, and even a combine with his own…
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This Nebraska Used Bookstore Fills An Old Downtown Building With Floor-To-Ceiling Shelves Of Secondhand Books
A pup named Rosie works the floor at one downtown Nebraska bookshop, and she may be the most…
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Wagon Ruts From The 1840s Still Cut Through The Grass At This Nebraska Pony Express Stop
A covered wagon hitched to a team of oxen waits outside a visitor center in southeast Nebraska, and…
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The Nebraska Cafe Where Chilaquiles Share Five Pages Of Breakfast With Pancakes
Five pages. That’s how much breakfast menu one Nebraska restaurant hands you before your coffee even cools. Chilaquiles…
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Started As A Railroad Hotel In 1890, This Nebraska Building Now Serves Steaks Downstairs
Eleven guest rooms, and each one was decorated by a different local family. That alone makes this small…
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Tour The Nebraska Factory Where Every Bag Of Popcorn Starts On Farms Just Down The Road
One flavor of popcorn here is called Lemon Bar. Another goes by Hocus Pocus, and a third is…
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This Nebraska Co-Op Grocery Makes Shopping Around Food Allergies Feel A Lot Less Stressful
The people pushing carts down these aisles actually own the store. That alone makes this Nebraska grocery worth…
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This Small-Town Nebraska Meat Locker Still Does Old-School Custom Butchering And Runs A 24/7 Meat Vending Room
A meat locker with a vending room that never closes sounds like a joke until you see it….
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Kids And Grown-Ups Alike Go Wild For This Nebraska Candy Shop With Over 3,000 Treats
A paper-eating dragon and an experimental airplane share space with a mountain of chocolate at one roadside candy…
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Hand-Rolled Tamales Sell By The Dozen Every Morning At This Omaha Mexican Market In Nebraska
Tamales made right inside the store share shelf space with warm tortillas and spicy fried chicken at one…
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Seven Generations Have Milled Flour From Wheat Grown Right Outside This Nebraska Mill
A flour mill built in the 1870s still holds its original milling equipment, right where the workers left…
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Cream-Filled Long Johns And Fried Cinnamon Rolls Make This Small-Town Nebraska Bakery Worth An Early Alarm
Somebody at a small Nebraska bakery takes a cinnamon roll, fries it, and then covers it in chocolate….
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This Nebraska Ranch Lets You Trade The Hustle For Gentle Horseback Trail Rides Through The Sandhills
A cabin balcony looks out over Sandhills grass, and a lake full of chattering waterfowl sits close enough…
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This Nebraska Christmas Shop Stays Decked Out With Ornaments And Nutcrackers All Year Long
A full line of Steinbach nutcrackers stands at attention in a Nebraska shop where Christmas never packs up…
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This Nebraska Italian Market Stocks Piedmontese Beef, Fresh Focaccia And Ground Kangaroo Most Grocery Stores Never Carry
Ground kangaroo has turned up in the freezer case of a Nebraska butcher shop. It sits a few…
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This Hindu Temple In Nebraska Opens Its Carved Marble Halls To Anyone Who Walks In
A Ganesha sculpture weighing about 2.5 tons sits at the heart of a temple in Nebraska. It’s carved…
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Meet Adoptable Rescue Pets At Capital Humane Society’s Pieloch Pet Adoption Center In Lincoln, Nebraska
Kittens have crashed a yoga class here, and that was the whole point. The event was called Kitten…
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This Nebraska Museum Fills A 1905 Fort Headquarters Inside A State Park Full Of Original Buildings
One museum here tells the story of a fort that trained cavalry horses, held German prisoners and taught…
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This Nebraska Amish Store Fills Its Shelves With Bulk Spices, Fresh Jam, Deli Meats And Frozen Gooseberries For Pie
Frozen gooseberries sit in a freezer case here, waiting for someone brave enough to bake a pie from…
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This Nebraska Rescue Gives Forgotten Goats And Sheep A Peaceful Place Where They’re Loved
More than 90 goats and sheep share one quiet patch of woods, and every single one has a…
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Sauerkraut Pies Have Rolled Out Of Ovens At This Nebraska Volga German Festival For Generations
A humble bread pocket stuffed with cabbage, onion, and sometimes sauerkraut has a whole heritage campus standing behind…
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These Nebraska Agates Glow Under Ultraviolet Light In Ways Most Rock Hunters Never Notice
Some agates carry a tiny trace of uranium, and under shortwave ultraviolet light that trace can make them…
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Willa Cather Grew Up In This Tiny Nebraska Town Where Her Childhood Home Still Stands
A teenage girl once earned rose-covered wallpaper by working at a drug store, then hung it in her…
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The Nebraska Spot Where You Stand At The Point Where Two States And Four Counties Meet
One step at the end of a dirt road puts your left foot in Colorado and your right…
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This Free Nebraska Prairie Museum Hides A Whole Main Street, A WWII Guard Tower, And Trains You Get To Start Yourself
A German prisoner-of-war camp once stood just down the road from a free museum in south-central Nebraska. That…
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Gone Are The Freight Trains, And Nebraska’s Silo Climbing Dream Faded Too, But This Climbing Gym Still Has Walls Worth Scaling
Omaha once had climbers clipping into ropes inside an old grain elevator with 62 silos. That gym closed…
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This Nebraska Glass Studio Shapes Molten Glass By Hand And Lets You Blow Your Own Ornaments
Six handmade glass ornaments. That’s what one beginner class here can send home with you, and you blow…
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Bison, Wolves And Black Bears Roam This Drive-Through Nebraska Wildlife Park
A full-grown bison can wander right up to your car door here, and the speed limit is a…
