Places amkbrenner Wants to Go

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

A curious sculpture garden and museum in Cochrane, Wisconsin.

Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

The remains of a Rockefeller's lush Italianate estate hidden in the underbrush on the coast of Lake Michigan.

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

Experience the life of an 1800's lumberjack at this interactive museum that is only accessible by railroad.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

Complex aquaponics systems allow fish and plants to grow in harmony.

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