| The Thaddeus Kosciuszko Memorial is a hidden | | | | |
| treasure. It's the smallest U.S. National | | | | What Texas Monthly has every five years is a |
| Park - .02 acres. Thaddeus Kosciuszko was a | | | | search for the state's best barbeque. After |
| Polish-born, American Revolutionary War hero, | | | | traveling over 15,000 miles and trying 341 |
| whom Jefferson described as the purest son of | | | | barbeques, they found Snow's Barbeque in the |
| liberty he'd ever known. The memorial is one | | | | small town of Lexington. What they found at |
| room in a narrow, Philadelphia road house, | | | | Snow's was Miss Tootsie. Miss Tootsie, who's |
| where Thaddeus lived for seven months in 1797 | | | | a school custodian during the week, has been |
| when he petitioned Congress for back pay. If | | | | cooking barbeque for forty-two of her |
| he'd known he was going to have his own | | | | seventy-three years. She says the secret to |
| national park, I doubt he'd have asked his | | | | her barbeque is the combination of heat, |
| secretary to find a place "as small, as | | | | smoke, salt, pepper and time. Now that Snow's |
| remote and as cheap" as possible. His | | | | is #1, Miss Tootsie has gone from cooking 300 |
| memorial teaches us history and to be careful | | | | pounds of meat to 1,000 pounds - and Snow's |
| what we ask for. | | | | is only open Saturdays. Because they often |
| | | | sell out in two hours, the locals think |
| The Eiffel Tower, one of the seven wonders of | | | | Snow's has gotten too big for its ... |
| the modern world, isn't hidden and it wasn't | | | | brisket. |
| meant to be a treasure. Gustave Eiffel | | | | |
| originally planned to build the tower in | | | | Before 1972 Gunnison Beach in Sandy Hook, NJ |
| Barcelona, as part of Barcelona's Exposition | | | | was a military base, where soldiers |
| Universal. After Barcelona turned him down, | | | | occasionally skinny dipped. When the base was |
| Eiffel submitted his plans to those in charge | | | | decommissioned, it officially became a |
| of Paris' Exposition Universal, who were | | | | clothing-optional beach. On summer weekends |
| having a design contest for the exposition's | | | | as many as 5,000 people go there. Bathers are |
| entrance arch. Although Eiffel won the | | | | all races and ages, but most are over 50. |
| contest, the contest terms stipulated "the | | | | Most bathe nude, many are topless and a few |
| arch" would be torn down in twenty years. | | | | are in swimsuits. Even at a hidden treasure |
| When the time came, however, France didn't | | | | not everyone wants to reveal their hidden |
| have "de Gaulle". | | | | treasures. |