If you’re lucky (or unlucky, depending on your perspective), you might spot a timber rattlesnake basking on a sun-warmed rock – one of Minnesota’s few venomous snakes and a protected species in the ...

Medina, New York might be the most charming small town you’ve never heard of, hiding in plain sight between Rochester and Buffalo like that last perfect cookie in the jar everyone somehow missed.

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