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Still, candy-makers continue to make candy. The National Confectioners Association estimates that candy sales in 2010 amounted to $29.4 billion, up nearly 3 percent from 2009.

The American candy industry gives parents and children plenty of chances to make sweet memories by enjoying the nation’s best candy stores, tours and museums. Here are five.

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Insider's Mikhaila Friel visited an American candy store in the UK, where she tried well-known items such as Twinkies and Sour Patch Kids.

The American Candy Land store in central London is one of nine mega candy shop selling American candy within less than a square mile. Jason Alden / Bloomberg via Getty Images.

Candy season is about to reach its peak. It won’t end, though; it never ends. Valentine hearts already nudge against the dwindling supply of Santas in the candy aisle, and Easter isn’t far behind.