34 Amazing Things That Will Make You Fall In Love With Durham N.C.

Voted as the South's Tastiest Town, Durham will satisfy any food craving.

The perfect combo of dough-y and melt-in-your-mouth. Also, who could ever forget the dinosaur table numbers??

Cookies & cream. omg.

They also have some mad secret to making the chip incredibly addicting.

At Pompieri you cut pizza with scissors. And eat it with shameless stupor.

Home of delicious schmears.

PSA: this place serves freakishly good red velvet waffles. #fluffybutterheaven.

Even their vegan wings are to die for. Everything is better rubb'd.

Nothing better than cheap, tasty drunk burritos.

The music scene is fucking dope. This is the home of Sylvan Esso, Des Ark, Hiss Golden Messenger, Bombadil, and so many more.

Everything about this place and its people is fantastically weird. So weird that it's good.

The smallest, most intimate space to butt-touch your favorite artist.

Like The PInhook's illegal parties. You will never groove more than going to one of these. deeeeep haus hip hop.

At the beginning of the South's Industrial Revolution, Durham was the site of tobacco and textile factories, so many of today's businesses and homes reside in repurposed warehouses.

Also known as Parrish Street, it lines the Hayti community, Durham’s main African American district. Together, they make up a central part of Durham's history and diversity. The Hayti Cultural Center also holds a variety of performances and other programs to celebrate black heritage and to promote greater cultural understanding.

And LATTE ART THROWDOWNS!!!

To show you what I'm talking about, their "Dr. Durham" drink has homemade vanilla topped with maca root powder, ginger root powder and black lava salt. *Dies.*

Comes with bluegrass music, arts and crafts, beautiful babies, and plenty of sunshine. Also, food trucks...so many food trucks.

Food truck rodeos!

There are multiple murals of Pauli Murray around the city. She was a powerful civil rights and women's rights activist, raised in Durham, N.C.

For a trail named after the history of tobacco production, you'll actually fill your lungs with a whole lot of good stuff. 22+ miles of refreshingly clean air.

Hills, so many breathtakingly painful hills.

Lounge, jump from the scary rock, chill on a log, anything. The Eno is life.

Ducks, babies, ancient redwoods, flowers upon flowers, flowers to fall asleep in, and flowers to win over anybody's heart.

This includes Hogwarts and Mordor.

Pure sorcery.

Well, even though Maple View Farm is located in Hillsborough, N.C., it's just a car ride away and its chocolate milk is thankfully sold in many Durham grocery stores.

No where else will you find a more tight-knit, cozy community.

#keepitdirtydurham