Places thesaragates Wants to Go

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

A historic cider mill still using time-tested techniques.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

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

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

This historic mill has been turning apples into delicious fresh cider for over a century.

Inside the Wayne County airport is an amazing collection of lights and sounds.

Charming bookshop for true-crime fans and horror aficionados, plus other books and odds and ends.

Five restored historic road bridges in a park along the Kalamazoo River.

Dating back to the 1800s, two imposing buildings in Michigan have had countless transformations over the years.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

A cabinet of funerary art and death culture hidden inside an oddities shop.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.