Places jesadair Wants to Go

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

Secret gardens just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.