Places Laura Andersen Wants to Go

From printing money to live music, this Beaux-Arts style building has had many identities over the last century.

The only known working replica of the world's first self-propelled vehicle.

No one knows how or why this painting appeared to produce crystallized tears.

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

In this Florida couple's cottage, nearly every surface—inside and out—is covered in mosaic artwork.

The story of a Floridian city as told through an obscure sport for retirees.

A creative deviation in this post office's design was once a source of controversy.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

An abandoned Victorian house transformed into a museum and store filled with taxidermy and vintage goods.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

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

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

You’ll feel like you’ve gone through the looking glass at this contemporary art museum filled with glass sculptures of every size, shape, and color.

This funky outdoor gallery in Florida is filled with whimsical recycled art installations.

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

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

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

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

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.