Places popelover72 Wants to Go

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.

A remote island marking the entrance to Death’s Door, surrounded by the bones of ships who failed to heed her warnings.

Exhibits from an island in Lake Michigan are preserved in this hand-built cabin museum.

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

A soon-to-be-forgotten roadside spectacle loaded with local lore.

A neighborhood of houses made of poured concrete through a process invented by Thomas Edison.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

Considered by many to be a local landmark and treasure.

Hidden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania lies one of the best-kept ghost towns in America that you can legally visit.

Behold the rickety glory of one of the oldest roller coasters still standing.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.

A herd of roughly 250 American bison roam these plains.

The mural faces the football stadium and has been known as Touchdown Jesus since 1964

This lovely public park has an intriguing past and unique wooden bridges made of concrete.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

Paranormal activity on the great lakes.