Palm Desert, California
Smiler's Point
This simple highway curve has become a comedic pilgrimage site.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Palm Desert, California
This simple highway curve has become a comedic pilgrimage site.
Palm Springs, California
Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.
Palm Springs, California
Instead of faces, these sculptures have barcodes—statements on societal dehumanization.
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.
Mecca, California
The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.
Los Angeles, California
A historic fort commemorating the United States' naval history.
Lakeland, Florida
A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Lakeland, Florida
A towering, steel behemoth that has graced the skyline of Lakeland, Florida since the early 1980s.
Sarasota, Florida
The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.
Sarasota, Florida
A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.
Apollo Beach, Florida
Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.
Gibsonton, Florida
The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.
St. Petersburg, Florida
Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.
Tampa, Florida
The country’s largest boat parade honors an infamous Spanish pirate—who never actually existed.
Tampa, Florida
One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.
Tampa, Florida
This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.
Bogotá, Colombia
This narrow street is packed with street vendors and bars selling chicha.
Bogotá, Colombia
A celebration of Colombia’s premier contemporary artist.
Bogotá, Colombia
Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.
Bogotá, Colombia
Colombia's biggest botanical garden contains plants from all across the country.
Nemocón, Colombia
Colorful lights and mirror-like brine pools create trippy illusions within the historic mine.
Villa de Leyva, Colombia
This colonial town in Colombia sits around the largest stone paved square in South America.
Santa Barbara, California
The home of one of California's most important horticulturalists wilts amidst a lovely park.
Santa Barbara, California
A unique local art exhibit that has continued to grow since 1989.