Places Joe Wants to Go

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

Anyone can control this glittery light installation with just a phone call.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

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

A failed, un-built suburb that has been going feral for decades.

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

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

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

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

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

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

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

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.