Attractions

Tune in to see actor Jeff Daniels as a Buckless Yooper. In addition, learn about a professional baseball team’s mascot called Mr. Celery, and the Museum of Funeral Customs that has one focus — death.

Business

Ever drink an okra martini or lather up with a luxury soap named after the lowly boll weevil? Need live crickets – fast? Click here to find out more about these and other businesses that offer unusual products and services!

Dining

Pass the napkins, please. You can get a fried double bologna burger, or try a pig sandwich, green chili slopper or coffee potato ice cream. Wash everything down with a white birch beer from the Hall of Foam.

Oddities

Time out: A Division I college football game actually had a final score of 222-0. Also, somebody had to invent Mother’s Day, and a city called Skullbone got its name from hosting bare-knuckle boxing matches.

Festivals

What’s that smell? Be sure to attend a celebration that features outhouse races, then bring a breath mint to the annual Garlic Festival. In addition, applaud the lucky and deserving winner of the Slug Queen Pageant.

Tastes Great, More Filling
Julia Balik (left) and Tatyana Plotntkora make pierogies at Pierogies Plus in Moon Township, Pa.

It’s not just for Polish people anymore.

Helen Mannarino of Pittsburgh, Penn., has started a business called Pierogies Plus, which has now been featured on the Food Network twice. The company employs 16 people, most of whom share Mannarino’s Eastern European roots.

She and her staff serve four varieties of the Polish favorites each day, with an additional 24 available through special order. Customers can also suggest their own fillings when ordering the stuffed dumpling delicacy.

“People kept asking for this and that, and we just started to make different kinds just to make people happy,” she says. “I guess that’s what this business is all about.”