Places Liz Jameson Wants to Go

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

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

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

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.