Clarke’s is the anti-museum museum—a gloriously chaotic celebration of American childhood where every corner, shelf, and ceiling space bursts with colorful reminders of simpler days.

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I got sucked in big-time this past summer by Gillian Flynn's nail-biting thriller Gone Girl, the tale of a wife who disappears in a marriage that's gone very wrong. To give myself something to do ...