Places wherearewedude Wants to Go

Tour the oldest family-owned cigar-rolling factory in the country—then learn how to roll your own.

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.

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

From printing money to live music, this Beaux-Arts style building has had many identities over the last century.

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

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

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

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

Brick walkways weave through more than 500 palms and cycads, representing 150 species from around the world.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

Visit the final resting place of a potential pirate at this historic burial site.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

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.

Whale bones, scrimshaw, and sperm oil make up just a part of this comprehensive collection of whaling history.

All that remains of a magnate's dream home is a historic gate and an abandoned public pool.

This park commemorates the birthplace and legacy of the brothers who authored a song that has come to be known as the Black National Anthem.

A small piece of the composer's New York home lives on in the center of Czech culture in Manhattan.

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

This sign marks the start and end of Matt Green's nearly 10,000-mile quest to walk every block of every street in New York City.