music Enjoy ABBA's "Dancing Queen" played on a gorgeous 100-year-old mechanical fairground organ David Pescovitz
architecture Mark the 130th anniversary of the Chicago World's Fair by reading "The Devil in the White City" this summer Jennifer Sandlin
Food Deep-fried Goo Goo clusters and oysters on a stick — a celebration of fair food Jennifer Sandlin
retrofuturism Go back to 1962 in this Bell Telephone film from the Seattle World's Fair Mark Frauenfelder
california Deep-fried filet mignon, spaghetti donuts, and "unicorn-specific" foods debut at the San Diego County Fair Rusty Blazenhoff
happy mutants Profile of Norman Bel Geddes, creator of the 1939 New York World's Fair Futurama Cory Doctorow