Places istnbl Wants to Go

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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

A building so large that it has its own weather.

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

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

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.

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

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

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.

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

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.