Places sschmit2 Wants to Go

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

Built in 1797, this is Mississippi’s most haunted house.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

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

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

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

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

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

More than 12,000 years ago, this park was a playground for mastodons.

A former elementary school houses one man's extensive collection of art, artifacts, and taxidermy.

This 17th-century "unicorn" was cobbled together from the skull of a rhinoceros, the legs of a mammoth, and the horn of a narwhal.

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

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

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

The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

This giant mimetic milk bottle has encouraged Route 66 travelers to choose dairy since 1948.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

Created by Catalan artist Joan Miró in 1978 and made up of 350,000 tiles, this mural is the only large-scale glass mosaic the artist ever created.