Places Kevin OKeeffe Wants to Go

The statues commemorate the legendary mass killing of escaped circus monkeys.

A charming monument to a very special dog.

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

Originally built by the Works Progress Administration, this park was recently saved from demolition.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

An unassuming house in Wisconsin hides a transient artist’s magnum opus.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

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

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

The subtle interplay of fire and water is hard to ignore at this remote Jamaican spring.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

The legend associated with these ruins understates the splendor of the mansion that once stood here.

You may get stranded and everyone's peeing in the water, but at least there's cocktails!

Cavernous opening completely encased in Karst limestone.

This botanical garden has been nicknamed "Alabama's Little Corner of Greece."

This small cemetery contains the graves of prisoners of war who were interred at Fort McClellan during World War II.

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

In Rickwood Caverns, visitors can travel hundreds of feet underground and see beautiful formations unique to the region.