Places jthornton13 Wants to Go

Quirky outsider art transforms this garden shop into a little stone fantasyland.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

This 19th-century ghost town offers a stunning view of Lake Michigan and a journey through the region's industrial past.

The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

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

This unincorporated community in western Ohio got its peculiar name from John "Daddy" Baker.

The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust.

A Victorian cemetery hidden along a trucking route is all that remains of a 19th century village.

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

The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.