Places editrixjen Wants to Go

A small strip of artistic displays is tucked away in a flea market.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

Florida’s largest fish hatchery features aquariums, fishing ponds, and local taxidermy.

North Central Florida's largest flea market and a weekend roadtripper's dream.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

This facility, now a museum, once housed and trained U.S. Army Air Force pilots who flew during the Allied invasion of Normandy.

Step into the past and experience what life was once like in the Sunshine State.

An author's private collection of quirky travel-trinkets and oddities has become a rotating mini-museum in the window of a local bookstore.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

If you ever wanted to own an actual piece of Disney World, this is the place to shop.

A towering, steel behemoth that has graced the skyline of Lakeland, Florida since the early 1980s.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

Some believe Ponce de León's mystical spring lurks right under a public drinking fountain.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

A lone gunner's station is all that remains of a replica Spanish Fort in Florida.

The hall of fame for circus performers.