Places Jenn Eidemiller Wants to Go

Working compound meant to allow visitors to reclaim the values and traditions of the past.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Of course the guy with the first patent for an ice machine lived in Florida.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

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

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

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

This small museum is dedicated to the history of Havana and Florida's once-booming tobacco industry.

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

This 15-foot former Johnny Appleseed has given up his apples for donuts and coffee.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

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

How Quincy, Florida became the richest town per capita due to one man's shrewd business acumen and taste for fizzy drinks.

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

Georgia may have been on his mind, but this memorial in Florida shows that Greenville was really Ray Charles's childhood home.

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

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

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

This general store is stocked with memorabilia from the 1930s onward—almost none of it for sale.

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

A trek through the solar system here on earth.

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