Places caitlinhug7 Wants to Go

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

An opulent testament to the boom-and-bust history of industry in north central Indiana.

This turn of the century jail once held Charles Manson.

An unknown number of cholera victims are buried in two nondescript graves.