Places clpartin Wants to Go

Founded by Cliff Barackman of 'Finding Bigfoot' fame, this museum is dedicated to the study of North America's unacknowledged hairy woodland hominids.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.

After sitting abandoned for decades, this historic mine is now the only publicly accessible chalk room and pillar mine in North America.

Once a thriving town of 100, Argonne was abandoned around 1970.

Spend the night in this former asylum for the incurably insane, which claims to be one of the most haunted places in the United States.

A wonderland of caves in eastern Iowa.

An underground wonderland in Iowa.

A crumbling ghost town on the South Dakota prairie.

Despite monuments in other locations, this spot in a South Dakota field is recognized by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey as the center of the 50 states.

This vintage train once gave new meaning to “swimming upstream.”

An authentic Dutch windmill, built in the Netherlands and shipped to Wisconsin.

Once part of an extensive network of fire towers, this is one of the few remaining in this Wisconsin forest.

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

Picturesque and haunting, these 160-year-old stone ruins on top of a bluff are the only remains of a settler's legacy.

These modest Midwestern formations are kin to Niagara Falls' impressive cliffs, more than 600 miles away.

Built by an accountant with a dream of running a grand resort, this estate has sat vacant for over half a century.

Prayers and messages of hope decorate the ceramic tiles of this pavilion.

The site of an ancient Mississippian settlement that appears to have flourished during the 10th to 13th centuries.

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

A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

A chimney and a plaque are all that remains of a logging camp that once cleared out a large swath of Minnesota's old-growth forest.

Nicknamed the "Grand Canyon of the North," this open-pit mine in Minnesota has a much shorter history.

The remains of a once-famous hotel that also acted as an artist colony.