Places IronQueen Wants to Go

Dedicated to the victims of one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the United States in recorded history.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

This small Key West museum is packed with dozens of artifacts that illustrate the life of the iconic playwright.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

The medieval "Bearded Man" relief still serves as a clever flood warning marker.

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

A seven-ton black granite monument dedicated to the memory of those who died and those who lived through the 1977 crash of the popular Southern rock band.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

A replica that won't float away.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

"May the force be with you always."

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.

A 19th-century utopian religious society designed to align with the latitude of Jerusalem.