Places Mycala Wants to Go

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

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

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

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

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

This museum gives tribute to the underappreciated "Down-South Submarine."

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

The perfect place to take a family of giants for a beach vacation.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.