Places BE Wants to Go

This scenic overlook commemorates the tragic death of a soon-to-be-married lumberjack.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

This state-of-the-art planetarium takes architectural inspiration from the sun itself.

This unusual three-way wooden foot bridge spans two rivers at once.

This indie movie theater is one of only three surviving Mayan-themed theaters designed by “Detroit’s greatest theater architect.”

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, a marker honors the creation story of a proud fictional culture.

On the right bank of the Grand River a plaque remembers an imaginary painter who once awaited his youth.

Outside Grand Valley State University, you'll find a bench upon which many were said to have sat according to the fictional Kcymaerxthaere, waiting for a guide of time.

At Fountain and Division, in the shadow of Kendall College of Art and Design, lays the story of a fictional culture whose political system was used under license and who finally rebelled.

At HopCat, a marker honors fictional creatures with the ability to travel the missing dimensions of Kcymaerxthaere.

Where most of the world's flypaper was made.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

Outside Hope College in Holland, Michigan, a marker honors a University without people from the fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

On the shores of Lake Kalamazoo, a plaque marks a fictional event where an island nation ran aground.

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

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

The NBA player's elaborate former home is now a ghost of its old glory.

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

One of the largest carillons in the world, this giant instrument has 67 cast-iron bells played by a keyboard.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.