Places timeckert1990 Wants to Go

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

Part of a highway network meant to connect Miami to Montreal, this 10-mile stretch of road made from red bricks is still around 100 years later.

These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.

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

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

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

A towering, steel behemoth that has graced the skyline of Lakeland, Florida since the early 1980s.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

A former Canadian automobile ferry mysteriously appeared in the Black River 20 years ago, and now it quietly rusts away.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

A cemetery where many of those buried had a flair for the dramatics.

This replica of Michigan's mighty Mackinac Bridge is more than 200 times smaller than its northern counterpart.

This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.

The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

The smallest useable chapel in Michigan is five-by-eight feet and has seating for three.

This is the last hand-cranked chain ferry of its kind in operation in the United States.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.