Places heymarykate Wants to Go

Prolific outsider artist Sid Boyum's concrete sculptures add whimsy to Madison's Schenk-Atwood neighborhood.

Amateur taxidermy museum known for its large collection of white squirrels.

A curious sculpture garden and museum in Cochrane, Wisconsin.

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

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

This former prison is an Art Deco masterpiece with a past full of civil rights flashpoints.

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

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

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

VW heaven in the backwoods of Dade City, now gone.

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

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

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.

A monthly street "service" of handmade puppets and live original puppets, whose devotees profess has the power to change lives.