Places The Core Wants to Go

Play over 120 retro arcade games and pinball machines at this throwback museum.

If you don't look closely, you might mistake this sculpture for just another passenger waiting at the airport.

No one knows how or why this painting appeared to produce crystallized tears.

Owned by no one but beloved by all, Brownie was a good dog.

In this small strip mall resides the largest collection of original art from the famed TV artist.

A self-explanatory attraction allows fans to respectfully remember and honor a comedy legend.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Despite what scientists think, the town still says this is an extraterrestrial rock.

A short boardwalk through a swamp leads to the spot from which the Louisiana Purchase was surveyed.

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

The Man In Black grew up in a large agrarian community established by the federal government in the Great Depression.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

This horror movie and monster shop is like if a haunted house was a retail store.

Just off I-55 in McLean, Illinois, is a place where you can play over 100 arcade and pinball machines for 25-75 cents a pop.

A museum and gift shop in a small Illinois town commemorates the work of E.C. Segar and the local figures on whom he based his characters.

See where Bill Murray kidnapped a hapless Punxsutawney Phil.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.