Places ssolsen12 Wants to Go

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Home to the organ played at General MacArthur's funeral.

Some of the largest trees of their kinds exist throughout Williamsburg’s historic core.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Long before Europeans arrived, Native Americans built an artificial island out of shells that has withstood a millennia of hurricanes.

A wonderful world of rare fruits and flowering trees grows in a small botanical park in Bradenton.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

A vast collection of everyday items amassed by one man.

Amazing collection of over 2,000 live birds from around the world, many of which are rare or endangered.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

A sweet tribute to Georgia's official state vegetable, which even has its own mascot: "Yumion."

This roadside installation gives travelers a chance to stretch their legs. Don't worry—it doesn’t bite!

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

This facility, now a museum, once housed and trained U.S. Army Air Force pilots who flew during the Allied invasion of Normandy.

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