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Candy Kitchen and Pie Town, New Mexico

If you're road-tripping near New Mexico and fancy something sweet, then you should definitely take a detour to Candy Kitchen and its neighbor Pie Town. As you can imagine, these towns have taken full advantage of their namesake and are full of candy stores and pie shops - but there's no point heading to these attractions if you don't know the history of this town. After all, how these towns got their name is pretty interesting.

Flickr/Larry Lamsa

During the prohibition, local moonshine makers wanted to put the cops off the scent of their business. So, they decided to hide under the cover of pie shops and candy stores. In the end, the towns adopted these names.