Places jesideringer Wants to Go

A cemetery where many of those buried had a flair for the dramatics.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

Visitors to this Kentucky homestead turned museum are immediately transported back to the Antebellum south.

A free park where visitors can learn about and collect 440 million-year-old fossils.

A surprisingly large number of show waterski teams are located here in Wisconsin.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.

A flamboyantly decorated bridge signals diversity and fellowship at the entry to Indianapolis' Broad Ripple Village.

This stately clubhouse has showcased German-American culture for over a century.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

This enchanting forest trail leads to ethereal abodes and a giant bird's nest.

Locals place their offerings on this nightmarish gnarled tree so the witches won't summon another storm.

The secluded resting place of a local historical figure who perished during the sinking of the Titanic.

Two dozen rescued bears roam (mostly) free at the largest bear ranch in the U.S.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

The site where Michigan launched its first rocket into space lies abandoned in the dense woods along Lake Superior.

Reason for Michigan's potential diamond mine.

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

The honor of highest point in Michigan was almost given to the wrong peak before this mountain won out by 11 inches.

The last remaining tollhouse in Michigan built during the 19th-century plank road craze.