Places joparkman Wants to Go

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

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

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

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

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

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

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

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.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

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

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

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

One of the best-preserved Native American mounds remaining in the southern United States.

A serene but haunting memorial to protective wetland lost, the absence of which directly damaged the Lower 9th Ward following Hurricane Katrina.

An architectural experiment in the Lower Ninth Ward, this row house is capable of floating as high as the Katrina floodwaters.

The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.