Places Ben Wants to Go

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Only through the lens of a microscope can visitors see the true treasures inside this museum.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

This abandoned bridge is now a favorite haunt for graffiti artists.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

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

Part of a highway network meant to connect Miami to Montreal, this 10-mile stretch of road made from red bricks is still around 100 years later.