Places catlightly Wants to Go

An underground city of salt.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

Every January 6, young men dive into Spring Bayou in search of a cross and a year's worth of maritime blessings.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

Named from the Spanish for “beautiful woods,” this public cemetery is spread across 29 acres of moss-draped oaks.

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

A beautifully detailed Victorian house designed to be easy to flee, built by a man haunted by fire.

This historic oak tree has been around for over 300 years and might last for 300 more so long as it doesn't fall apart first.

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

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

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

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

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

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

Tucked away atop a quaint Alabama pharmacy is this tiny display of antique medical tools.

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

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

A trove of tiny treasures hidden within a Florida park.

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

The last surviving video rental shop in Tallahassee doubles as a cult cinema and community hub.

An unusual college football tradition involves burying pieces of sod from competitors' turf, replete with tiny coffins and headstones.