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Retro-tech

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Elvis is still in the building at the Museum of Outdated Technology.

Rockville, Maryland

Museum of Outdated Technology

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

The Voder at the 1939 New York World's Fair

The Voder, the First Machine to Create Human Speech

It spoke like a creepy demon.

Eric Grundhauser January 16, 2017

London, England

Novelty Automation

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

Dictograph Alarm on a Baltimore garage.

Why Don't They Make Alarms Like This Anymore?

They are pretty cool-looking.

Sarah Laskow November 8, 2016

New York, New York

Macy's Wooden Escalators

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

The Steampunk HQ zeppelin.

Oamaru, New Zealand

Steampunk HQ

The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

Google Maps 2016

essential guide

Plot a Pinball-Themed Roadtrip With This Handy Map of America's Best Parlors

This cross-country route takes in the 37 greatest pinball arcades in the U.S.

Dylan Thuras August 23, 2016

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Pinball into infinity.

Banning, California

The Museum of Pinball

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

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Hundreds of machines are setup for the tournaments.

Carnegie, Pennsylvania

Professional and Amateur Pinball Association World Headquarters

Where the "World Pinball Champion” is crowned.

AC/DC

Hopewell TWP, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Coin Operated Gaming Hall of Fame and Museum

10,500 square feet of pinball housed in former dollar store and home to the last playable "Thunderball."

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Pinball pinball pinball!

Pelham, New Hampshire

Pinball Wizard

Expertly restored pinball machines as far as the eye can see.

Vintage D. Gottlieb & Co. game

Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville Pinball Museum

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

Happy Birthday to the World's First Emergency Number

London's '999' turned 79 this week.

Ella Morton July 1, 2016

le téléscaphe in the 60s

Marseille, France

Le Téléscaphe

For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.

Persu, Duesenberg, some tractor-looking thing

Bucharest, Romania

Dimitrie Leonida Technical Museum

Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.

Yes, '90s Blockbuster Training Videos Really Were This Cringeworthy

Watch as a young employee in pleated slacks is criticized for her life choices.

Urvija Banerji April 7, 2016

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Bradley in the shop

Santa Monica, California

Church of Type

Somewhere between an art studio and a print shop, this artists storefront is a house of worship devoted to type.

The History of the Philips CD-i, Failed PlayStation Ancestor

This ill-fated CD console produced some amazingly off-brand Nintendo games.

Eric Grundhauser March 25, 2016