83 Cool and Unusual Things to Do in Indiana - Atlas Obscura

Unusual
Attractions
in Indiana

Well-maintained catacombs exist to this day under the popular City Market

Indianapolis, Indiana

Market Street Catacombs

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

39.7688, -86.1593

Added by Mark Casey

Bluespring Caverns

Bedford, Indiana

Bluespring Caverns

The longest navigable underground river in the U.S. is home to countless blind and albino animals.

38.7962, -86.5460

Added by baikinange

The sheer walls and striking blue water of the Empire Quarry have dazzled visitors for decades.

Bloomington, Indiana

Empire Quarry

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

39.0703, -86.5308

Added by Mark Casey

Indianapolis, Indiana

Indiana Medical History Museum

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

39.7724, -86.2099

Added by mbison

The Ruins

Indianapolis, Indiana

The Ruins

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

39.8711, -86.1612

Added by EricGrundhauser

Knightridge Space Observatory

Bloomington, Indiana

Knightridge Space Observatory

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

39.1500, -86.4705

Added by EricGrundhauser

West Baden Springs, Indiana

Historic West Baden Springs Hotel

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

38.5671, -86.6185

Added by Mark Casey

New Harmony Labyrinth. (Creative Commons)

New Harmony, Indiana

New Harmony Labyrinth

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

38.1224, -87.9359

Added by atimian

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Unique
Food & Drink
in Indiana

Sugar Cream Pie

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Sugar Cream Pie

Indiana's unofficial state pie was once a desperate measure.

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Added by rachelrummel

Snickers Salad

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Snickers Salad

Made of candy and Cool Whip, this “salad” is a mainstay at Midwestern potlucks.

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Added by Ike Allen

Hot Beef Sundae

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Hot Beef Sundae

Pretty please with a cherry (tomato) on top?

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Added by claireleone2024

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The barn at the Clemens Farmstead, where James and Sophia Clemens settled in 1818.

The Forgotten Black Pioneers Who Settled the Midwest

Before the Civil War, free black settlements grew in the Northwest Territory.

by Sarah Laskow

An Amish buggy.

The Indiana Amish Are Blessed With a Genetic Fountain of Youth

The mutation confers longer life, but comes with a caveat.

by Natasha Frost

November 16, 2017

Hoosier Hill, Indiana.

The Unsolvable Mystery of the Word 'Hoosier'

No one seems to know how we got this nickname for people from Indiana.

by Dan Nosowitz

August 22, 2017

At the Jayco RV Factory in Elkhart County, Indiana.

Why the Amish Are Building America’s RVs

They're forbidden from driving them, but not from making them.

by Allison Yates

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