Places rowemattk Wants to Go

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

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

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

A watering hole where regulars who have ordered 500 beers have their names etched on the bar in gold.

Explore the flooded remains of a limestone mine in Kentucky.

Once one of the most polluted caves in America, now an environmental success story and a museum dedicated to caves.

The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.

This huge clock made of flowers and simple machinery was once used a political weapon.

The collection of a paranormal investigator who traveled the country collecting haunted items and stories.

The largest cemetery in Louisville is the final resting place of Col. Sanders and Muhammad Ali.

One of the greatest boxers and humanitarians to ever live chose his hometown as his final resting place.

This boulder stays on its mountain thanks to a huge chain and on the map due to local legend.

You can climb to the summit of Black Mountain, as long as you sign the waiver.

Kentucky's longest operating jail is now a spooky spot to spend the night.

Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

Beautiful waterfalls grace a canyon visibly torn by a violent tornado.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

How a friendly mining-school rivalry, two adventurous students, and 400 tons of limestone created a Platteville landmark.

Probably the only remaining trace of a leprosy house in Wisconsin, reflecting a time when leprosy was uncurable and sufferers were isolated.

In 2019, an anonymous photo of a windowless room with eerie yellow wallpaper was posted to 4chan from this building, launching 'The Backrooms', one of the internet’s most massive collaborative horror phenomena.

The final resting place of Gary Gygax; co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons.

These rural ruins are of a Midwestern hotel that was once an elegant spa for the wealthy, then a gangster’s hideaway, and finally a haunted retreat.