Places GrowAnOak Wants to Go

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

Interactive modern and vintage submarine equipment, World War II relics, and submarine attire.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

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

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

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

Public works and national defense project meant to carve a canal all the way across the state of Florida.

A collection of retro plastic goods made with "the material of a thousand uses."

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

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

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

World's largest magnetic research facility.

The ruins of a once massive plantation are now a private residence hidden in the Florida wilderness.