Places empace Wants to Go

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

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

Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.

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.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.

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

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

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

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

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.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

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

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

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

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

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

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

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

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