Places Ben Wants to Go

These ornate, fish-shaped water spouts guard Savannah’s historic facades.

The tabby ruin is Savannah’s oldest surviving structure.

Florida's first suspension bridge.

The Okefenokee Swamp houses this "incredibobble" tribute to the creator of America’s favorite cartoon possum.

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

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

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

An echo chamber with a waterfall wrapped around its base at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C.

This sculpture is one of many stunning features along Tampa’s Riverwalk.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A trek through the solar system here on earth.

This Buddhist temple is home to a number of towering statues spread over a peaceful wooded park.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.

Grab a slice of pizza next to the remains of the "human monkey" who ran for mayor.