Places alecbaechle Wants to Go

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

World's largest carved onyx figure stands as a tribute to enduring peace.

The Real LegoLand.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

Inside the unassuming cemetery chapel is a magnificent stained glass window and mosaics.

The mortal remains of a Russian prince, priest and paranormal investigator who came to America in 1792.

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

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

Pennsylvanian mass grave and possibly mass murder.

A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.