Places shanemwoods Wants to Go

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

Owned by no one but beloved by all, Brownie was a good dog.

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

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

Developed by focused shutterbugs, this museum exposes visitors to more than 6,000 different cameras.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.