Places patricklongmire Wants to Go

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

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

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.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

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

The culprit who accidentally lit this 3,500-year-old tree on fire stated "I can't believe I burned down a tree older than Jesus."

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.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

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

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

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

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

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.