Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

An unusual art exhibition in a suburban yard is designed to awaken the souls of those flowing by.

The site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison is now a peaceful memorial.

The only zoo where you can buy animals that won't need feeding.

The ruins of a paper mill destroyed during the Civil War still tower over a tributary of the Chattahoochee River.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

This twisty sign depicts the chain's first logo.

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

This labyrinth was designed to help visitors focus and meditate.

Tombstone of a dog that greeted passengers at the Southern Railway Depot.

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

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

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

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

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

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

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

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