Places Crabeater Wants to Go

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

This sanitorium-turned-asylum-turned-prison is now abandoned and a hotspot for enjoyers of the paranormal.

The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

The overgrown remains of an old rail bridge rise above the valley like ancient Greek ruins.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

A history of tragedy and a pile of eerie stories have contributed to this house's consistent ranking as one of the most haunted places in Ohio.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

This dam is part of the nation’s largest public power producer and a historic steward of Hiwassee River.

This abandoned building with a murky history has been both a school and a prison.

This 1920s mansion in the Outer Banks has some of the best examples of Art Nouveau ornamentations in the United States.

One of the few remaining railroad turntables is hidden near downtown Raleigh.

The replica western town of Shadowhawk was built by a former Hollywood actor in Smithfield, North Carolina.

Saunter along the banks of one of North Carolina’s wildest rivers

A ghost town that was wiped out by a flood in 1940.

An idyllic mineral hot springs facility with a more-than checkered past.

A historic dam made famous for its turbines and feature in a Hollywood classic.