Places Klyse Wants to Go

This library and museum is dedicated to the life and literature of the Indianapolis native author.

Display that gathers the basic elements of the universe in one convenient location.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

This candy shop has been serving up sweets to the Louisville area since the 1850s.

A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

A modern-day wunderkammer dedicated to Indianapolis history, Afrofuturism, and musical vibrations.

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

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

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

A chilling monument to Korean patriots who resisted the Japanese occupation.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."