Places ladyloreli Wants to Go

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

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

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

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

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

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

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

This historic oak tree has been around for over 300 years and might last for 300 more so long as it doesn't fall apart first.

A beautifully detailed Victorian house designed to be easy to flee, built by a man haunted by fire.

Dedicated to the "World's Luckiest Fishing Village."

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

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

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.

Interact with jury-selected works of art at this Gulf Coast underwater museum.

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

For decades, the largest tungsten producer in the U.S. was located in a spectacular setting in the high Sierra Nevada, with some of the workings over 11,000 feet.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.