Places sallylf82 Wants to Go

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

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

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

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

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

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A public, open-air art exhibit featuring world-renowned sculptures hides in plain sight on the outskirts of Orlando.

The North American Cryptid Museum doesn't simply tell stories about monsters—it invites you to step into their world.

The bridge continues the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policy.

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

Take a ferry across the Paraíba river in one of these 1980s bus-turned-boats.