Amusement Parks

Ride an over one hundred year old carrousel, one of the few original Dentzel Carrousels remaining in the country.

Montana’s first and only Alpine coaster.

Coney Island’s last surviving haunted ride.

This vintage theme park is peak Christmas kitsch—and it's open all summer.

This freewheeling amusement ride is the last of its kind.

This Spanish theme park stands out in the Japanese countryside.

One of the oldest continuously operating amusement parks in the U.S. is an open-air museum of Art Deco and neon lights.

This maze-like, oceanfront gift shop—the nation’s largest— has been serving kitsch to the Myrtle Beach community for over 80 years.

A massive playground in the woods of Germany.

Three nine-foot-tall bathing beauties perched elegantly on life-rings welcome visitors to the Alki waterfront.

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

This theme park is not in Tokyo, not especially German, and certainly not a village.