Places Ron Buening Wants to Go

A creative deviation in this post office's design was once a source of controversy.

Built in 1927, this pink stucco hotel once hosted stars of Hollywood’s silent movie era. Now it's being brought back to life.

This historic crypt was said to have been designed and built by the very person who is buried inside of it.

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

This historical art colony is adorned with thousands of hand-carved concrete sculptures in the Mayan Revival style.

This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.

This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

An abandoned Victorian house transformed into a museum and store filled with taxidermy and vintage goods.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

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

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

VW heaven in the backwoods of Dade City, now gone.

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

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 ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

What started as a tailor shop to help swimmers live their mermaid dreams has grown into a full-scale aquarium, complete with live mermaid shows.

Kitschy nautical-themed bar has offered mermaid shows and underwater ballet since 1956.