Places Charles WV Wants to Go

You’ll feel like you’ve gone through the looking glass at this contemporary art museum filled with glass sculptures of every size, shape, and color.

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.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

Step back in time at this immersive historical village.

In this Florida couple's cottage, nearly every surface—inside and out—is covered in mosaic artwork.

Though it may look like it’s missing its outer shell, this skeletal cast-iron tower was built to withstand wind and waves.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

Approximately 65,000 gallons of crystal clear water pour out of this headspring every minute.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

This natural spring is the winter home to the largest gathering of manatees in the world.

The mounds on this coastal archaeological site reveal the history of the land’s first inhabitants.

These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

Only through the lens of a microscope can visitors see the true treasures inside this museum.

Built around 1723, this is the oldest surviving home in the U.S.'s oldest colonial city.

One of the oldest, tallest, and most haunted lighthouses in America.

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

Used as a military post in three different engagements, this fort has remained incomplete and unfired upon for nearly 200 years.

This abandoned bridge is now a favorite haunt for graffiti artists.