Places stefanmarquart Wants to Go

Chicago was once a major hub of film production, but being silent film you don’t hear much about it.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

The Zalud family experienced a number of tragedies in one decade, giving rise to rumors that the 19th century house is haunted.

No one knows who painted this mysterious mural in a Penn State basement.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

A remote gravestone on the moor marks the spot where a teacher's body was found under mysterious circumstances that remain inexplicable.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.