Places scarew Wants to Go

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

Part of a highway network meant to connect Miami to Montreal, this 10-mile stretch of road made from red bricks is still around 100 years later.

This concrete sculpture features a woman opening her heart to showcase a beautiful fern.

These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

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

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the coral reefs off Key Largo.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.