Places kaira Wants to Go

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

The pieces in this sculpture garden are made from demolished buildings that were once landmarks of Motor City.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

This stone is a marker of one millionaire's personal vendetta against gravity.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.

A miniature world of concrete and stone in Springfield, Ohio.