Places Added by Scott Forsythe

A park full of giant teddy bear statues was an anonymous gift to its host city

A venerable restaurant chain's one-off attempt to blur the line between themed eatery and amusement park

One man’s nostalgic collection of ’50s Americana

This descriptively-named art museum occupies an abandoned former county jail

Michigan's oldest operating hotel predates the state itself.

One of the first soy sauce factories in America, and its storied proprietor, are honored here.

This 150-year-old mill on Eel River still produces flour and offers tours of its historic grounds.

Texas’s first suspension bridge is still carrying people across the Brazos.

An abandoned generator and motor factory has become a multi-use industrial campus.

A Texas-sized secondhand bookstore features 54,000 square feet of books, music, and media.

Tune into an alternate universe at this immersive art installation.

A Prohibition-era casino once hidden as a palatial tea room.

Fall through a crack in the seams of reality at this immersive art installation.

Indiana's greatest rare bookstore has a special shelf for Hoosier authors.

Two Indiana icons are honored at this tiny museum, which features the world's largest collection of James Dean memorabilia.

The longest floating boardwalk in the United States.

This unique landscape is the only place in the world to dig for hourglass-selenite crystals.

Hike the ruins of a zoo that was shut down by an unsolved murder.

Circleville is seriously smitten with this giant gourd.

Fears of Satanic worshippers swirl around five Celtic-inspired megaliths.

A former limestone quarry has found a new life as a flourishing community garden.

The oldest county library in the United States.

A dam that moonlights as a gigantic, brutalist waterslide.

The largest public collection of roses in the United States.