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