Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

One man's love of sea life and art has turned his home into a temple of outsider island art.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

Grab a slice of pizza next to the remains of the "human monkey" who ran for mayor.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.

Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

In memory of the 110 victims of ValuJet Flight 592 that crashed in the Everglades.

Hundreds of caves filled with thousands of centuries-old statues and murals.

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.