Places nlcrocker Wants to Go

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

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

Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.

Working compound meant to allow visitors to reclaim the values and traditions of the past.

Ancient church constructed with a special wood that preserves prints from the past.

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

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

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

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

The haunting remains of a failed housing development can still be found behind the big box stores that were to anchor them.

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.