Places plt4000 Wants to Go

Memorial stone for GWAR vocalist, depicted in his iconic costume.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.

The walls of the iconic dome are hollow and have a secret stairway.

A secret greenspace hides atop a Capitol parking garage.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

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

Beneath the surface, something slithers. And if you find it, prepare to be slimed and glowing.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.