Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

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

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

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

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

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

VW heaven in the backwoods of Dade City, now gone.

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

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

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.

The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.

This collection of historical artifacts and tropical wildlife waits just beneath the surface of the water.