Places DBWeller Wants to Go

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

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

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

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

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

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

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

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

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

This collection features more than 240 antiquarian maps from around the world, in addition to historical views and plates focusing on North Florida.

The final resting place of "Mother Kofi," a Black minister who was assassinated in the middle of a sermon.

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

Built around 1845, this house was occupied for 100 years, serving as a home to a prosecuting attorney, a Union Civil War general, and a wealthy socialite.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.