Places Emily J Dudek Wants to Go

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

Get up close to an F-4 Phantom flown in the Vietnam War at this Florida park.

An unsuspecting brick building outside Orlando houses decades of train ephemera.

An Orlando museum houses the world’s most comprehensive collection of work by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

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

An unassuming corner inside downtown Orlando's library offers a whole new world of the park and its history.

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

This park harkens back to frontier life in Wisconsin.

As the glaciers retreated out of northern Wisconsin, this unique natural wonder was crafted.

Every winter, dozens of otherworldly ice structures sprout up from a rigged up artesian well.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

Nestled on the banks of the scenic Otter Tail River, this mill stands in memorial of Minnesota's flour-filled past.