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.

A Ton of ‘Cue
More sauce, please.

Shealy’s Bar-B-Que House in Batesburg-Leesville, S.C., has been satisfying hungry customers since 1969, and today serves 10,000 plates of barbecue every week. It also caters parties ranging from 35 to 4,000 people.

Besides barbecue, the nationally known restaurant on East Columbia Avenue has dinner items such as fried chicken, ham, turkey, roast beef and country fried steak. Side orders include rice pilaf, hash, string beans, potato salad and scalloped potatoes, plus dessert offerings such as banana pudding, cheesecake and peach cobbler.

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