Berlin, Maryland [Pictures]
Budget Travel magazine recently deemed Berlin "America's Coolest Small Town, 2014" after a nationwide contest in which tens of thousands cast votes online. Of hundreds of towns nominated, the magazine narrowed the list to 15 and let the public vote. The result: 40,000 votes (28 percent) for Berlin.
Beaches
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As the summer season approaches, Ocean City tries to hang on to its family-friendly past even as a group of women seek to go topless on the beach and performers celebrate their victory over a city that tried to regulate how they plied the boardwalk.