Places patricklongmire Wants to Go

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

This public baseball field is a beloved remainder from of one of the most historic stadiums in the country.

Watch the ships come in on Michigan's 210 ft. high observation deck in Sault Ste. Marie.

The honor of highest point in Michigan was almost given to the wrong peak before this mountain won out by 11 inches.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

Where the Model T was made and the assembly line was invented.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

A mysterious light in the wood, rumoured to be the the ghost of a railroad brakeman.

An Iowa town celebrates its heritage with the tallest working Dutch windmill in North America.

The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.

While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

After just one epic test blast, this literal loose cannon proved too explosive for combat.

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

This protected reserve is home to a rare and beautiful species of flower.

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.