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A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.