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If you want to learn about someplace, you can always pick up a textbook. But if you want to get to know a place, you're going to have to dig a little deeper. And what you find there might be a little strange. The Strange States series will take you on a v

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Kelly Hopkins 1955

This week we’re heading to the home of a chicken-loving colonel, a knife-designing frontiersman, and a really famous horse race: it’s the Bluegrass State—Kentucky.

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Flickr user oregon ducatisti

When you think of Idaho, you don’t think weird. But you might be surprised to learn there are some pretty odd places in the home of the most famous type of potato.

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ThinkStock

Not even four days could cover all of the weird stuff happening in Florida...

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Orgon Research

There’s just too much weird stuff in Florida to quit after three days. Maybe a fourth Strange States entry will let us get it all out of our system...

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Flickr.com/KeysLibraries

Two Strange States entries simply weren't enough to contain the oddities in America’s favorite vacation destination. Here's another.

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