Places aestheticsnafu Wants to Go

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

This hidden stream beneath Indianapolis makes an appearance in the best-selling novel "Underground Airlines."

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

This factory made "health corsets" that were a step towards liberating women's bodies.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Where experiments are conducted on all things wood.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.

Leave the wardrobes and sweets to British schoolchildren, Shanghai's got a Coke machine that leads to booze.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."