Restored historic buildings, machinery, and a Mediterranean garden tell the story of a vibrant multicultural neighborhood in the heart of Tampa.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

This small beachside park commemorates the possibilities of discovery.

This Ocean Drive crosswalk has been paved in rainbow colors to honor the LGBTQ+ community and the man who brought pastel to Miami Beach.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

This liminal destination combines creaky carnival rides, a classic car museum, and luck-of-the-draw flea market finds surrounded by dust and drive-in movie screens.

This concrete sculpture features a woman opening her heart to showcase a beautiful fern.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.

A historic ruin just 20 feet away from a busy highway onramp.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

A super-sized promotional trick that is now a D.C. landmark.

Outside the Department of Transportation, a collection of artifacts honors the history of how we get around.

One of the three perfect vellum copies of this historic book known to exist is on display in a specially-designed case.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

An echo chamber with a waterfall wrapped around its base at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C.

A gift from Japan, 17th-century lantern stands among the cherry trees at D.C.'s Tidal Basin.

The district's only illusionarium supports free writing programs for local students with every purchase.

This American Civil War-era fort still stands near the border between Washington, D.C. and Maryland.

This tiny, one-acre cemetery serves as a reminder of when the Civil War got close to the nation’s capitol.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.