Places hopemch Wants to Go

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A memorial honoring those who perished in one of the worst construction disasters in U.S. history.

Thousands of tiny squares in different colors make up this piece of street art.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

A lone grave is quietly tucked away in Kanawha Riflemen's Memorial Park.

The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.

A giant time capsule not scheduled to be cored until 2040.

This colorful West Virginia cowboy greets passersby with a glassy stare.

The largest piece of cut lead crystal adorned a grave for 75 years and is now the shining star of a glass museum.

Two gems of Beaux Arts architecture that have been sitting vacant for years.

The isolated final resting place for perished coal miners.

This abandoned mine and power plant was built atop land once given to Revolutionary War soldiers.

This California artist's front yard acts as a gallery for his unique, scrap metal animal sculptures.

This abandoned train tunnel has been the subject of countless ghost stories for years.

A well-preserved relic of the industrial age steel and iron works that dotted West Virginia.

The remains of one of the last mining camps developed on the New River.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.