Places nomadandwitch Wants to Go

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.

Halloween spirit is alive and well in this small town, where residents race motorized caskets in a yearly tradition.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

The oldest university museum west of the Mississippi retains its 19th century feel.

A concrete block embedded with thousands of pulled teeth was created by a local dentist to memorialize his dog.

Peak named for an old man who liked to run in the nude.

The remains of a Rockefeller's lush Italianate estate hidden in the underbrush on the coast of Lake Michigan.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

This unincorporated community in western Ohio got its peculiar name from John "Daddy" Baker.

An abandoned munitions factory with a shot tower continues to wage war on the surrounding environment.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.