Places emilyclaypoole Wants to Go

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.

Randy Senna's Fascination and retro arcade is home to the last Fascination game in New Jersey, and one of seven remaining as of 2021.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

Ornate and vibrant, this temple is a colorful place of worship for Columbus's Thai and Laotian communities.

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

The permanent home of Elektro, the celebrity automaton of the 1939 World's Fair.

A record-size collection of wild-haired troll dolls tells the story of the mythical creature's roots in Scandinavian folklore.

There are more than 4 million bricks inside this unofficial Lego museum in a former middle school.

This burger joint is named after everyone's favorite carnival prize and is adorned with a giant one over the door.

A retro walk through the history of the tube.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

This arcade is one of the last places to catch a public performance by the now-defunct ShowBiz Pizza's house band of animatronic animals.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.