Tourists flock to Mi Tierra Café - the USA's largest Mexican restaurant - to marvel at the spectacular decor. But they have to compete for a seat with the locals who have been eating there for generations and have seen the decor hundreds of times.

It’s the food, plus atmosphere, that keeps the…

It was sort of like the Internet of 200 years ago.

Thousands of men wielding shovels took 7.5 years to dig the Erie Canal and when the barges started moving, it greatly increased communication, trade, immigration and knowledge between America’s original 13 colonies and the Great Lakes – and on to the Midwest.

It was 200 years ago…