St. Louis, Missouri
Cotton Belt Freight Depot
An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.
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St. Louis, Missouri
An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.
Fairmont City, Illinois
Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.
St. Louis, Missouri
Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.
St. Louis, Missouri
A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.
St. Louis, Missouri
A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.
East St. Louis, Illinois
Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.
Collinsville, Illinois
Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.
Collinsville, Illinois
Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.
Independence, Missouri
A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.
Lead Hill, Arkansas
Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.
Ridgedale, Missouri
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.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
See prehistoric footprints, plus two complete mastodon skeletons.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
This museum explores the history and development of dentistry and dental technology in Michigan.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
A physical reminder of Earth's ancient past, this rock results from the photosynthetic processes of some of the oldest forms of life.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
For books about travel, whether factual or fictional, the perfect antiquarian does exist.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
A watercolor recreation of a famous fresco unearthed at Pompeii.
West Windsor Township, New Jersey
A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Its floors are marked by colorful cues depicting Michigan's native fauna.
Detroit, Michigan
Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Hidden in plain sight, a gravestone seemingly inscribed from the future stands among the cemetery’s historic tombs.
Seattle, Washington
Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.
Detroit, Michigan
Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.