Places stefaniemklett Wants to Go

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

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

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

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

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

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

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.