Places tessjen Wants to Go

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

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

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

This Arkansas town is known for its gangster history, its healing waters, and now its brews.

At a site that has witnessed many significant events, according to the fictional Kcymaerxthaere, it is best known as the place of lunar discovery.

Giant papier mache hog sits on private property.

A home designed to be on the cutting edge of comfortable, low-cost living.

The scant remains of an expansive indigenous civilization can be seen at this Arkansas state park.

Everything in this miniature world was handmade from matches, paperclips, wires, tin cans, and other everyday objects.

On the side of Arkansas' Great River Road stand the remains of a forgotten World War II POW Camp.

A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.

The Man In Black grew up in a large agrarian community established by the federal government in the Great Depression.

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

This historic bridge has weathered fires and floods and still stands, now abandoned, where it has stood since 1874.

Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.