Places Avalon Wants to Go

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

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

Tucked away in the forests of Indiana resides an abandoned waterslide that is now a popular graffiti haunt.

A rural hall of justice holds the world's only comic book and superhero museum.

Nature and art meet in this curvy creation

Display that gathers the basic elements of the universe in one convenient location.

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

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

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

Ornate limestone building now filled with geologic specimens, and more.

The body of one of the world's most famous outlaws is covered in cement and iron to prevent it from being stolen.

One man's vision and a labor of love of many.

This candy shop has been serving up sweets to the Louisville area since the 1850s.

This mysterious hill seems to pull objects uphill.

A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

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

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

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