Places Sarah Finley Wants to Go

This small-town park in southern Illinois has a 1,000,000-gallon swimming pool and a 100,000-barrel oil well.

This abandoned Abraham Lincoln statue has also earned the honorary of "World's Ugliest."

This unassuming city park is home to three different types of Native American mounds.

A giant concrete egg marks this Indiana town as the "Egg Basket of the Midwest."

One-layer pyramid in Indiana.

This elaborate estate contains a stunning marble aviary, a sunken conservatory, and a magnificent music room with a two-story pipe organ.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

This Little Rock legend has survived decades of rowdy crowds, three fires, and a zombie wedding.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.

A park and memorial dedicated to the victims of the deadliest school massacre in American history.

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

An opulent testament to the boom-and-bust history of industry in north central Indiana.

The large rock formation where the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa stood and encouraged his warriors during the Battle of Tippecanoe.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.