Places Ckorear512 Wants to Go

The highest point in Connecticut was incorrectly memorialized before surveyors discovered the actual spot.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

The Tallahassee Airport serves over half a million passengers a year and is home to some permanent residents too.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

The culprit who accidentally lit this 3,500-year-old tree on fire stated "I can't believe I burned down a tree older than Jesus."

A perfect circle of 24 mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric times.

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

An underwater city for the dead.

A mega theme park-wax museum mélange containing all things biblical.

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

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

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.