Places npnfeef Wants to Go

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

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

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

The only restaurant serving indigenous foods from the Amazon.

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

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

A nude beach alongside a washed-out road.

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

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

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

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

Decorative shell walls built in the 1940s sit atop an ancient midden created by the Calusa Native Americans.