Places mthurman52 Wants to Go

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

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

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

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.

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

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

An underwater city for the dead.

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

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

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.