Places nomadandwitch Wants to Go

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.

Outstanding collection of 19th century medical instruments includes a life-size figure cast from as many as 200 cadavers.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

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

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

What was once the largest NFL stadium.

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

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

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.

This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.

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

An unassuming house in Wisconsin hides a transient artist’s magnum opus.

The permanent home of Elektro, the celebrity automaton of the 1939 World's Fair.