Places greasekitten Wants to Go

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

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

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

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.

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

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

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

It's believed Elvis Presley was inspired to write his breakthrough track after staying here.

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

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

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

This New England drive-in was built to straddle the border between two states.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.