Places nancybdeol Wants to Go

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

This lovely public park has an intriguing past and unique wooden bridges made of concrete.

Center filled with hands-on displays served as a tribute to several astronauts with connections to the state.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

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

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

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

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