Sanibel, Florida
The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum
In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.
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Sanibel, Florida
In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.
Lake Placid, Florida
Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.
Gotha, Florida
Loyal fans of one television's most famous painters still come to pay their respects.
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.
Key West, Florida
The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.
St. Augustine, Florida
Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.
Pensacola, Florida
A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.
Apollo Beach, Florida
Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.
Orlando, Florida
A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.
Key West, Florida
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
St. Petersburg, Florida
The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.
Port Orange, Florida
Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.
St. Petersburg, Florida
Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.
Coral Gables, Florida
This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.
Seattle, Washington
A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.
Seattle, Washington
A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.
Seattle, Washington
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
Seattle, Washington
This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.
Chicago, Illinois
This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.
Seattle, Washington
Offering an enjoyable alternative to the standard hellacious post office trip.
Seattle, Washington
Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.