Places clpartin Wants to Go

The final resting place of a prominent Chippewa chief and several Native American children.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

At the top of a local ski mountain is a hidden cemetery containing the graves of just two soldiers.

In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

This scenic overlook commemorates the tragic death of a soon-to-be-married lumberjack.

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

A chilling disappearance (and rescue) of a child uncovers a geological mystery.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

Every winter, water dripping from a pole creates an ever-changing ice sculpture.

Where most of the world's flypaper was made.

These sprawling mines once served as a source of plaster and today serve as a storage facility.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

A collection of 11 million buttons illustrates the human toll of the Holocaust.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

One of two identical monuments marking the sites of military training encampments in Peoria, Illinois.

A massive bur oak tree believed to be some 500 years old is the centerpiece of this quiet urban greenspace.

The remnants of Peoria's proud baseball past stand slightly abandoned, but not forgotten.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.