Chicago, Illinois
Garfield Park Conservatory
A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.
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Chicago, Illinois
A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.
Kapa'a, Hawaii
A local pineapple cannery once dumped pineapple trimmings off of this pier, with sometimes smelly results.
Atlanta, Georgia
Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.
Atlanta, Georgia
One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.
Columbus, Georgia
A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.
Atlanta, Georgia
An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.
St. Augustine, Florida
One of the oldest, tallest, and most haunted lighthouses in America.
St. Augustine, Florida
Built around 1723, this is the oldest surviving home in the U.S.'s oldest colonial city.
Tampa, Florida
This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.
Islamorada, Florida
A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.
Sanibel, Florida
In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.
Marco Island, Florida
Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.
Tampa, Florida
A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.
Titusville, Florida
The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.
St. Augustine, Florida
St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.
Titusville, Florida
A building so large that it has its own weather.
St. Augustine, Florida
The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.
Cape Canaveral, Florida
This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.
Gibsonton, Florida
The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.
St. Augustine, Florida
It's a pretty creepy lock-up.
St. Augustine, Florida
An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.
Riverview, Florida
The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.
St. Augustine, Florida
Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”
St. Augustine, Florida
A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.