Places bentyner Wants to Go

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

Bizarre and inspired combination store selling only two items: tires and bibles.

A former 19th-century tavern, famous for its peach brandy and honey concoction.

The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

Part of a worldwide art project, this mysterious semicircle of concrete shapes holds the pieces of a larger story.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

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

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.