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At the end of the week, a brand new science-themed mini golf course will be opening at the Hall of Science in Queens, New York, and though that seems an awfully conventional (and predictably pedantic) choice of golf course theme, we’re convinced there’s stranger and more exciting out there. So we hit the links all [...]

At one point in middle school, as some kind of public speaking exercise, each student in the class had to make a brief speech about themselves. Somehow we got into a pattern whereby everybody’s blurb included mention of trips they’d taken, and nearly everyone mentioned going to Disneyland, Disneyworld, or both, which we found extremely [...]

We can think of at least two movies that sort of end in abandoned amusement parks (A.I., Touch of Evil), and the moody setting of dillapidated childlike imagination tends to lend a sad, surreal mood we really enjoy. That said, such films don’t really make us want to visit a disused theme park, because, you [...]