Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

World's largest magnetic research facility.

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.

Working compound meant to allow visitors to reclaim the values and traditions of the past.

Ancient church constructed with a special wood that preserves prints from the past.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

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

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.