Places empace Wants to Go

What started as a tailor shop to help swimmers live their mermaid dreams has grown into a full-scale aquarium, complete with live mermaid shows.

The larger-than-life art installation at Tampa International Airport welcomes travelers to town.

This extensive display of bobbleheads is a tribute to one of the most unique pieces of sports memorabilia.

The United States' only educational center specializing in disease vectors and mosquitoes.

America's first wax museum opened in 1948.

A glimpse at Walt Disney's vision for a "community of tomorrow," in miniature.

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

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

Nearly 200 prehistoric giants lurk among the trees at this theme park.

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

Every Sunday for the last 30 years, this Buddhist temple has hosted a market with food and Thai goods.

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

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

For 32 years the famous Ringling Bros circus troupe spent winters in this sunny spot in Florida.

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

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

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

An abandoned Victorian house transformed into a museum and store filled with taxidermy and vintage goods.

A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.

Get up close with some alligators at this roadside farm attraction.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

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