Places PabstSmear Wants to Go

This is the house that spite built.

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.