Places packedandwandering Wants to Go

This massive vault of comedic history is no joke.

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

Florida’s first home built with eco-friendly hempcrete.

Though it may look like it’s missing its outer shell, this skeletal cast-iron tower was built to withstand wind and waves.

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

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

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

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

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.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

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

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

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

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

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

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

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.

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

A sculpture of 18 beautiful clay mandalas on display at Warm Mineral Springs in Florida sends a message of world peace.