Places JCPHOTOGRAPHY Wants to Go

Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

The oldest remaining authentic Putt-Putt course that Donald Clayton created in Ohio.

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.

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

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

This marker tells the story of a town’s toxic past.

This replica of Michigan's mighty Mackinac Bridge is more than 200 times smaller than its northern counterpart.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

The final resting place of a prominent Chippewa chief and several Native American children.

This solemn facility remembers the cruel effort to compel Native American children to relinquish their culture.

This tree was warped centuries ago to serve as a botanical wayfaring tool.

The final resting place of the visionary founders of Kelloggs, a global leader in breakfast cereals.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

An enormous factory from the late 1800s sits abandoned on Cleveland eastside.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

Centuries ago, red and white wine poured from the statue's breasts whenever a new Venetian ruler was elected.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.