Places wintermuteway Wants to Go

A tribute to the furry local heroes who helped get residents through many tough times.

World's largest magnetic research facility.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

This funky outdoor gallery in Florida is filled with whimsical recycled art installations.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

The ruins of a once massive plantation are now a private residence hidden in the Florida wilderness.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

A failed, un-built suburb that has been going feral for decades.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.