Places defriesen Wants to Go

‘Bush the old fire dog died of poison July 5th, 1869. RIP.’

A historic arena where the Beatles played their first concert in the U.S.

The iconic D.C. restaurant where the Cuban Missile Crisis was negotiated, now a Walgreens.

During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

The school tested mustard gas for the U.S. Army during World War I.

Austria’s oldest brewery makes beer with flaming-hot granite.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.

The storied steakhouse is the last in a long line of Lebanese-owned supper clubs in Tulsa.

The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

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

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

It reportedly took three years to sort through all the objects in this eclectic lifelong collection.

Weighing 30,000 pounds, this monument represents Detroit's first industrial era.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.

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

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.