Places victoriaccon Wants to Go

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

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

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

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

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the coral reefs off Key Largo.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

The former desk of Fire Chief Joseph "Bum" Farto is all that remains after his mysterious disappearance following a drug conviction.