Cape Canaveral, Florida
Launch Complex 34
This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
St. Augustine, Florida
Castillo de San Marcos
The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.
St. Augustine, Florida
Treasury Street
St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.
St. Augustine, Florida
Pirate & Treasure Museum
Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.
St. Augustine, Florida
The Fountain of Youth
A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.
Brussels, Belgium
Manneken Pis
A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
U.S.S. Cairo
This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.
Natchez, Mississippi
The Emerald Mound
The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.
Nashville, Tennessee
Concrete Parthenon
This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.
Memphis, Tennessee
The Jungle Room at Graceland
Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.
Memphis, Tennessee
Sun Studio
This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.
Memphis, Tennessee
National Civil Rights Museum
The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.
Florida
Alligator Reef Lighthouse
This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.
Islamorada, Florida
History of Diving Museum
A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.
Homestead, Florida
Robert Is Here
The sign that drew attention to a young boy's cucumber stand is now the name of his fruit superstore.
Miami, Florida
Miami City Cemetery
Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.
Key Biscayne, Florida
Cape Florida Lighthouse
Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.
Key Biscayne, Florida
Stiltsville
A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.
Miami, Florida
Miami Circle
A perfect circle of 24 mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric times.
North Miami Beach, Florida
The Cloisters of the Ancient Spanish Monastery
St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.
Key Biscayne, Florida
Crandon Park Zoo Ruins
It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.
Miami, Florida
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.
Permanently Closed
Key Biscayne, Florida
Miami Marine Stadium
An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.
Fulton, Missouri
National Churchill Museum
A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.
