Places baxterpop 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.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

One of just a few cities in the world to base their center of government on an island. Others: Paris and Osaka.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

At HopCat, a marker honors fictional creatures with the ability to travel the missing dimensions of Kcymaerxthaere.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.