Kitsch

Down-home Arkansas comfort food comes with a side of American pop culture kitsch.

At this Austin dive bar, it's been Christmas every day for more than 50 years.

This kitschy, kinky homage to Taipei’s old “grandpa shops” is full of eye-candy.

A royal relic from the time that gambling was accidentally made legal in South Carolina.

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

An entire home filled with over 3,000 pieces of Santa memorabilia in glass cases, walls, on Christmas trees, and even in the bathroom.

A parade of interactive nostalgia nestled within a giant brick building in downtown Hattiesburg.

The gravestone of the man who designed the plastic pink flamingo is adorned with his most famous creation.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.

In a small town outside Jerusalem, a roadside diner is devoted to all things Elvis Presley.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.