Places laureltree Wants to Go

All that remains of a vanished Michigan lumber town, remembered for tragedy, plague, and a witch’s curse.

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

Miners in Michigan developed a taste for Cornish beef pasties, which this roadside stand has been selling since 1947.

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.

What was one of the largest hotels in the country burned to the ground in a tragic fire.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

View the ancient remains of buildings and the ancient "River of Hades" before hopping on a train.

A 15th-century granary that played the role of futuristic slave quarters in the world of 'Star Wars.'

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

An Argentinian businessman facing terminal cancer built this whimsical medieval village using salvaged materials.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

These tiny statues form a terracotta army from China's Han dynasty.

The sanctuary seems to either float atop the water or sink into the dirt, depending on the water level.

This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.

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

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.