Places ericcuebas Wants to Go

Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

Prolific outsider artist Sid Boyum's concrete sculptures add whimsy to Madison's Schenk-Atwood neighborhood.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

Life-size statues of characters from 'The Wizard of Oz' stand at the one of the early screening sites for the 1939 movie.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

A tiny 1857 chapel sits on top of a secluded, forested hill.

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

Housed inside a former munitions plant that was once one of the largest in the country.

This circus town museum recognizes the outstanding clowns of history.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

This friendly fellow was built to honor an advancement in mineral processing.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

Watch the ships come in on Michigan's 210 ft. high observation deck in Sault Ste. Marie.

This Native American cemetery features decades-old spirit house hidden behind pine trees and moss.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

Two dozen rescued bears roam (mostly) free at the largest bear ranch in the U.S.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

This 19th-century ghost town offers a stunning view of Lake Michigan and a journey through the region's industrial past.