Places bibliophile22 Wants to Go

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

An underwater city for the dead.

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

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

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

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

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

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

An 18th-century home taken over by antique automatons and musical machines (Closed).

A couple's 60-year love of collecting is on display at this unique stove repair shop in Maine.

A shoreline exhibit describing the disastrous first attempt by the French to colonize North America.

A memorial to an ill-fated Holy Land mission once described by Mark Twain as “a complete fiasco.”

Located in the historic home of a newspaper publisher, this museum is dedicated to the Freedom of Speech.

A showcase of geologic history is home to one of the largest collection of lunar meteorites on Earth.

The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.

Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

The steel hull of a wrecked tug rests on Lobster Cove on Monhegan Island’s rocky southeastern shore.

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

This massive solar system model is sprawled out across Maine's suburban wilderness.

A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.