Places NEALMAJORS Wants to Go

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

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

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

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

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

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

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

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

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

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

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.