Places ashleymlawrence Wants to Go

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

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

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

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.