Places scottakantor Wants to Go

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

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

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

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

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

A mega theme park-wax museum mélange containing all things biblical.

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

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."

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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 gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

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

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

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.