Detroit, Michigan
Nancy Brown Peace Carillon
Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Detroit, Michigan
Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.
Detroit, Michigan
Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.
Manistique, Michigan
This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
The world's only bushplane museum captures the spirit of the early planes and pilots and their contributions to northern life in Canada.
Chicago, Illinois
One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."
Clarington, Ontario
A Canadian POW for German soldiers during WWII where prisoners hatched an elaborate escape plan.
Washington, D.C.
The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.
Washington, D.C.
Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.
Washington, D.C.
These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.
Washington, D.C.
A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.
Midland, Michigan
There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.
Bridgeport Charter Township, Michigan
A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.
Port Austin, Michigan
Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.
South Bend, Indiana
The first artificial white water river course in North America cuts right through an Indiana city.
Indianapolis, Indiana
A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.
Indianapolis, Indiana
The body of one of the world's most famous outlaws is covered in cement and iron to prevent it from being stolen.
Weehawken, New Jersey
The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This is the house that spite built.
Chicago, Illinois
First planned industrial community in the United States.
Colleville-sur-Mer, France
A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.
Seneca Falls, New York
What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.
Istanbul, Turkey
1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.
Saint Lunaire-Griquet, Newfoundland and Labrador
An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.