Places Islamorada Wants to Go

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

At this airport "microcinema," you can catch a film before you catch a flight.

The oldest restaurant in Portland serves fiery coffee cocktails and an astounding amount of turkey.

Definitely not a clown bar.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

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

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

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

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

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

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

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.