Places RouteDown Wants to Go

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

At a lodge and RV park is a collection of headwear that comes in at more than 11,300 and counting.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

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.

World's largest magnetic research facility.

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

The Tallahassee Airport serves over half a million passengers a year and is home to some permanent residents too.

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

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

This sidewalk monument honors more than 50 civil rights activists who helped change the face of America.

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

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

Tucked away in the forests of North Florida resides a 19th-century lighthouse.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

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

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

Florida's first suspension bridge.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.