Places Charles WV Wants to Go

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

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

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

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

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

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.

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

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

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

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

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

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

A pocket of jungle amidst urban expansion in Panama.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

The largest game reserve in Africa is home to thousands of species but refuses to house humans.