Places willard4848 Wants to Go

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Former WWI oil tanker played a variety of roles in history, its tantalizing rum-flavored scent being the only constant.

Four antique Baldwin trains are kept on display in the Mal Tiempo train depot.

A nuclear power plant abandoned along with an international allegience.

A small museum in the Bay of Pigs gives the Cuban perspective on the famously failed U.S. invasion.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

At Macon’s oldest cemetery two members of Allman Brothers are buried side by side.

Military and first responders can test their skills in a Foggy Bottom mock station down in Georgia.

A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.

This memorial honors the performers who died when two trains collided.

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

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

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

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

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

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

It's gunky, it's gross, and it's been freed from the sewer and put on display.

It's an incredibly beautiful city public space, with spacious rooms to study and admire the artwork.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

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

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

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