Places vidnel Wants to Go

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

Chilly air billows out from the entrance of an abandoned mine on a steep hillside, providing a refuge for Ice Age fauna and flora.

Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This huge stew pot is the focal point of the "Community Soup" event, which honors tradition and soup.

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

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

This supper-club-turned-concert-venue still serves drinks at its original rotating bar.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

One extremely determined man's homemade universe.

Prolific outsider artist Sid Boyum's concrete sculptures add whimsy to Madison's Schenk-Atwood neighborhood.

This odd-shaped relic from the 1964 New York World's Fair found its way back home to Wisconsin.

Meet the "Green Monster" of Monico, Wisconsin.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.