Places Jillian Wants to Go

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

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

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

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

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

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

This elaborate estate contains a stunning marble aviary, a sunken conservatory, and a magnificent music room with a two-story pipe organ.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

The first artificial white water river course in North America cuts right through an Indiana city.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

This lovely pocket park is one of the most under appreciated in D.C.