Captiva, Florida
The Bubble Room
This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Captiva, Florida
This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.
Gainesville, Florida
Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.
St. Petersburg, Florida
Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.
Marco Island, Florida
An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.
Homestead, Florida
A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.
Lake Wales, Florida
A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.
Estero, Florida
Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.
Monticello, Florida
The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.
Port Orange, Florida
Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.
Pensacola Beach, Florida
Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.
Orlando, Florida
Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.
San Francisco, California
This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.
San Francisco, California
This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.
San Francisco, California
A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.
San Francisco, California
This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.
San Francisco, California
A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.
San Francisco, California
Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.
San Francisco, California
Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.
San Francisco, California
A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.
San Francisco, California
The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.
San Francisco, California
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.