Places Emily Sue Wants to Go

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

Exhibits from an island in Lake Michigan are preserved in this hand-built cabin museum.

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

Built in 1933, this unique ballroom is nicknamed the "floating dance floor."

This odd-shaped relic from the 1964 New York World's Fair found its way back home to Wisconsin.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

The preserved remains of the former Milwaukee County Hospital for the Insane are hidden in the wooded grounds of County Park.

Every winter, dozens of otherworldly ice structures sprout up from a rigged up artesian well.

The tragic death of 19-year-old Mabel Tainter in 1886 led to the construction of this unique Victorian-era theater in the northern woods of Wisconsin.

As the glaciers retreated out of northern Wisconsin, this unique natural wonder was crafted.

This park harkens back to frontier life in Wisconsin.

On a remote island in the northern reaches of Lake Michigan, a museum of collectibles collides with a vintage toy store.

Though it's thrived abroad, this forgotten Dunkin' rival has just one store left in the States.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

Hunting trophies and antique guns make up the unusual display at this Minnesota bank building.

An underwater city for the dead.