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Tampa Theatre

Tampa, Florida

Tampa Theatre

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

December 2008

Amarillo, Texas

Cadillac Ranch

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

Marfa Lights

Marfa, Texas

Marfa Lights

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

Don Quixote Dining Room

Tampa, Florida

Columbia Restaurant

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

Statue of Roland Manteiga

Tampa, Florida

Roland M. Manteiga Statue

A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.

El Reloj, the 100-year-old cigar factory still owned and operated by the J.C. Newman cigar company

Tampa, Florida

J.C. Newman Cigar Factory

Tour the oldest family-owned cigar-rolling factory in the country—then learn how to roll your own.

Columbia Icefield

Alberta

Columbia Icefield

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

Columbia Icefield Skywalk

Jasper, Alberta

Columbia Icefield Skywalk

With a floor made of thick glass, this observation deck offers a full view of Sunwapta Valley's mountains and rivers.

Tampa Bay’s Oaklawn Cemetery is the final resting place of Jose Perfino, who’s thought to have been a pirate.

Tampa, Florida

Grave of Jose Perfino

Visit the final resting place of a potential pirate at this historic burial site.

This Tampa bakery famed for Cuban loaves was opened by a veteran of the Spanish-American War.

Tampa, Florida

La Segunda Central Bakery

This century-old bakery produces 18,000 loaves of traditional Cuban bread every day.

Bethlehem.

Calhoun, Georgia

Rock Garden Calhoun

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

Walnut Street Bridge

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Walnut Street Bridge

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

Signal Mountaint's spaceship house

Signal Mountain, Tennessee

Spaceship House

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

Medora Covered Bridge

Medora, Indiana

Medora Covered Bridge

At 431 feet and 10 inches, this is the longest historic covered bridge in the United States.

Brain Sculpture

Bloomington, Indiana

Brain Sculpture

The world's largest anatomically accurate brain sculpture.

Leaning Tower of Niles

Niles, Illinois

Leaning Tower of Niles

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

Wide shot of the front; around where the students got picked up from detention and said their goodbyes.

Des Plaines, Illinois

Maine North High School

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

Gum Wall window ledge

Seattle, Washington

Gum Wall

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Dinosaur World

Cave City, Kentucky

Dinosaur World

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

A sad sight for car collectors everywhere

Bowling Green, Kentucky

National Corvette Museum Sinkhole

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

Tyrannosaurus rex is one of roughly 200 life-sized prehistoric giants found at Dinosaur World.

Plant City, Florida

Dinosaur World

Nearly 200 prehistoric giants lurk among the trees at this theme park.

Publix Cake Water Tower

Lakeland, Florida

Publix Cake Water Tower

A towering, steel behemoth that has graced the skyline of Lakeland, Florida since the early 1980s.

Presidents Hall of Fame

Clermont, Florida

Presidents Hall of Fame

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

The Citrus Tower looks over what was once orange groves.

Clermont, Florida

The Citrus Tower

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

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