Places artstuffbylori Wants to Go

A fake 1930s-euro-style hotel with an indoor mini golf course.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

A herd of plastic cows hangs out under this transmission tower in rural Georgia.

Interact with jury-selected works of art at this Gulf Coast underwater museum.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

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

Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

Get up close with some alligators at this roadside farm attraction.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

View rare birds and interact with lemurs at this nonprofit run entirely by volunteers.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

A mysterious inscription may hold a clue about the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke.

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

A hidden paradise in one of Florida’s most unique rivers.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

This liminal destination combines creaky carnival rides, a classic car museum, and luck-of-the-draw flea market finds surrounded by dust and drive-in movie screens.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.