Places Annaml Wants to Go

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

The building is topped by a Statue of Liberty statue whose torch has stayed burning since the museum opened.

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

A modern-day wunderkammer dedicated to Indianapolis history, Afrofuturism, and musical vibrations.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

The sign to a demolished amusement park now stands in front of a local library.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

One of Europe's largest supercomputers is housed inside of a disused chapel.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

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

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.

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

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

Once the world's largest reinforced concrete structure, this abandoned bridge now beckons urban explorers.

This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.

One Austrian's singular yard is now preserved as a folk art garden of concrete wonders.

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.