Back in the 1980's, many families traveled across the Midwest to enjoy this water park. But, it was due to a possibly unrelated tragedy that the park would shut down and now it's been empty and abandoned for over a decade. Still, there are skeletons of what the water park used to be still remaining.
The Kingpins Bowl has sat vacant since closing its doors for the last time in July 2016. See photos taken years later revealing the state of rot and decay as the building and its contents were left abandoned.
Nazareth Speedway was once a thriving and busy NASCAR track that held 45,000 NASCAR fans. Now, 16 years after the track closed it sits with only the history of what it once was.
It's never a good thing when a building burns down. The best case scenario is no people are hurt as stuff can always be replaced. However, one Midwest building burnt down and the "stuff" was very unique including a limousine and a Lamborghini kit car.
When you're hiking through the woods, you don't expect to find a train there. But, that's exactly what happened in northern Illinois recently and I've learned this locomotive is almost 100 years old.
When I look in garages, more often than not I see family vehicles. One explorer looked inside an abandoned Midwestern garage and found a Lamborghini kit car and a stretch limo. Let's trade places.