Places exploringwithesch Wants to Go

A modern-day wunderkammer dedicated to Indianapolis history, Afrofuturism, and musical vibrations.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

An ancient glacial pothole waterfall in the heart of the Green Mountains.

An obelisk marks the farmhouse where the founder of Mormonism was born.

This charming woodland trail is peppered with poetry.

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

Play everything you see at a museum dedicated to a town's historic organ industry.

A bygone village occupation lives on via this quaint public chalkboard.

An unexpected canine grave atop a mountain.

Who is this marble man, perpetually creeping up the steps of his own mausoleum?

According to folklore, Vermont's slanted windows were installed to keep witches from flying into the house.

Site of the graveyard vine believed to be a curse on a family from the 1800s.

This historic folk museum celebrates the attention to detail that makes America great.

A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.

The world’s largest underground marble quarry is hiding in Vermont.