Places clpartin Wants to Go

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

This memorial to the Mercury Seven astronaut stands at the site of his former elementary school.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.

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

A statue high in a hill that represents how Buffalo Bill got his name.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Peak named for an old man who liked to run in the nude.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

One-layer pyramid in Indiana.

Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.

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

The only freestanding table rock formation east of the Mississippi.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

These otherworldly limestone formations jut out from the Kansas prairie.

The world's largest Holstein cow.