Places marissaweekend Wants to Go

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

A perfect circle of 24 mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric times.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.