Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

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

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

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

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

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

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

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

An underwater city for the dead.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

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

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

The final resting place of the Seminole Indian chief who fought against government occupation in Florida.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

This historic museum is home to a rare Confederate Chester Gun.

Legend has it the mill owner's daughter, Mary Musgrove, helped a Patriot soldier hide behind these falls.

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

A historic blockhouse and trading post give a glimpse into the early colonial history of South Carolina.

The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.