Places clpartin Wants to Go

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

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

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

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

This mausoleum is the final resting place of one of St. Louis's richest and most tragic families.

Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

The modest, restored home of the legendary ragtime musician John William "Blind" Boone.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

This mysterious hill seems to pull objects uphill.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

This stately clubhouse has showcased German-American culture for over a century.

A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.

The largest historic preservation organization in the United States.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

Nature and art meet in this curvy creation

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

This early 20th-century former train station’s unusual roof shape earned it a rather witchy name.