Places Schiffty5 Wants to Go

The only pachinko parlor in the United States.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

Carrying on the legacy of a short-lived experimental school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.