Places popelover72 Wants to Go

This library and museum is dedicated to the life and literature of the Indianapolis native author.

This multisensory alley has the ability to remind bustling citygoers to stop and smell the roses.

A set of tall pillars and alcove-like rooms that are significant to the Miami people of Indiana.

Beautiful quilts displayed in the former home of a quilting pioneer.

This elaborate estate contains a stunning marble aviary, a sunken conservatory, and a magnificent music room with a two-story pipe organ.

A collection of relics from the Spiritualist Camp Chesterfield.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

Nature and art meet in this curvy creation

Inspired by a piece of concrete, these three pyramid-shaped buildings have been beloved Indianapolis landmarks for over 50 years.

There is no other town or city in the world with the name Swayzee

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.

The trees in this small meadow grew from seeds that orbited the Earth.

This turn of the century jail once held Charles Manson.

Along this stretch of Indiana roadway resides a giant insect composed entirely of scrap metal.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

In the Compton Hill Reservoir Park sits a statue whose lack of clothing caused a scandal for the group that commissioned it.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

Remnants of a quarry company town still stand on the banks of the Wapsipinicon River.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.