Places explorationanddecay Wants to Go

Superfans of The Shawshank Redemption can take a driving tour of most of the films real locations.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

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

This humble star-gazing center touts itself as the "Birthplace of American Astronomy."

The final resting place of the most famous sharpshooter.

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

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

A grandiose title could not save this mercantile community from obscurity.

A gregarious Ohio resident has been building his whimsical temple to peace for decades.

This alley-cum-fan gallery in the ex-Nirvana drummer's hometown holds the world's largest drumsticks.

The spectacular collection of one of the world's best woodcarvers.

The site of Neil Armstrong's first flight is marked by a full on replica of the moon landers.

A county library in rural Ohio houses one of the finest mineral collections in the world.

The ruins of the suspension bridge hang over Kingsbury Run as a ghost of racial prejudice.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

Abandoned since the 1950s, the streetcar lane beneath the heavily trafficked bridge lays empty and unused.

In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.

A bronze of the man in all his sinewy glory celebrates his longtime connection to the Ohio city.

This presidential tomb was not dedicated until years after Harding's death due to personal controversy.

A fiberglass jungle, deep in the wilds of the Cleveland suburbs.

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

This tiny museum kept in a B&B laundry room holds the death mask of notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.

But did the famous feminist and abolitionist ever really say those iconic four words?