Places Taffodil Wants to Go

Decorative shell walls built in the 1940s sit atop an ancient midden created by the Calusa Native Americans.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

The world's only underwater laboratory where "aquanauts" study oceanic life.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.

Contrary to what one might expect, ice forms inside this small cavern during the summer and melts during the winter.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Visitors to this museum will uncover a whimsical collection of marbles from across time.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

The roadway bend where highway painters practice their craft looks like expressionist art.

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

This giant roadside goose has been hailing travelers into a small Ontario town for over 50 years.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.