Excelsior Springs, Missouri
Hall of Waters
This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.
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Excelsior Springs, Missouri
This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.
Independence, Missouri
A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.
Barrington, Illinois
With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.
Islamorada, Florida
A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.
Tampa, Florida
A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.
Homestead, Florida
Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
St. Augustine, Florida
The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.
Key West, Florida
Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.
Sarasota, Florida
A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.
Gainesville, Florida
The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.
Delray Beach, Florida
Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.
St. Augustine, Florida
Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.
Key Largo, Florida
Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.
Key Biscayne, Florida
An underwater city for the dead.
Lake Wales, Florida
Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.
Coral Gables, Florida
This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.
Key West, Florida
These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.
Charleston, South Carolina
Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.
Bowman, South Carolina
This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.
Fort Bragg, California
Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.
Three Rivers, California
These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.
Glendale, California
A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.