Places nikisb Wants to Go

It's been called “Detroit’s largest art object.”

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

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

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

A comprehensive archive of Hallmark Holiday ornaments.

At one of the nation’s longest-running professional theaters, the audience used to barter for tickets with produce and livestock.

The largest interactive exhibition in the U.S. exploring human history through the lens of power, punishment, and psychology.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.

Taxidermy reptiles and rodents put on quite the show at this local history museum.

Spies, love letters, and ghost stories have all left their mark on this home-cum-museum.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

Puffin enthusiasts flock to Europe's largest seabird cliff, which over one million birds call home.

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.

Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

Inside this museum, visitors venture through ghost stories entrenched in Icelandic folklore.

The Hveragerði fissure runs through this unassuming shopping center.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.