Places BlueGranite1 Wants to Go

The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.

Explore a real 19th-century lead and zinc mine at this immersive series of exhibits.

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

One of the largest aviation events in the world brings half a million aircraft enthusiasts to Wisconsin each year.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.

The museum houses one of the world's largest collections of glass paperweights.

This huge stew pot is the focal point of the "Community Soup" event, which honors tradition and soup.

Meet the "Green Monster" of Monico, Wisconsin.

Its collection contains relics from the devastating disaster that set the town ablaze.

A futuristic climate change study is nestled deep within this public land.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

The site where Michigan launched its first rocket into space lies abandoned in the dense woods along Lake Superior.

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

A tragedy and memorial that raised awareness about the dangers of unsealed mineshafts.

Only the original archway remains from the building where a false cry of "fire" started a panic that claimed more than 70 lives on Christmas Eve in 1913.

This small archipelago in northern Lake Superior was formed by a massive meteorite impact 450 million years ago.

Accessible only by train, the beauty of Agawa Canyon Wilderness Park is worth the journey.

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

Watch the ships come in on Michigan's 210 ft. high observation deck in Sault Ste. Marie.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

“The Place Where Food Grows Near the River” implements ancestral Indigenous agricultural techniques.

This Native American cemetery features decades-old spirit house hidden behind pine trees and moss.

Reason for Michigan's potential diamond mine.