Places themandino Wants to Go

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

A failed, un-built suburb that has been going feral for decades.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

A beautifully detailed Victorian house designed to be easy to flee, built by a man haunted by fire.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

This creative sculpture was a way to "recycle" an old tree.

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

Interactive modern and vintage submarine equipment, World War II relics, and submarine attire.

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

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

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.