Places Kelly Catalfamo Wants to Go

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

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

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

Emerging from the sidewalk, this sculpture of a whale commemorates the importance of baleen in traditional Japanese puppetry.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.

This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

One of America's oldest private membership libraries was long one of New Haven's best kept secrets.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

Thousands of American timepieces on display in the former clock-making capital of the country.

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.