Places pjjolly1 Wants to Go

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.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

These simple structures are living monuments to the fishermen who built this community over a century ago.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

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

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

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

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

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

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

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

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

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

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

The mysterious canine hides atop a drain pipe on the back of the building, some say as a sneaky shoutout to Yale.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.

Inside Crosswicks Creek Park resides an estate chronicling 200 years of history.