Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

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

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

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.

Home to 23 voluptuous and instantly lovable sculptures by one of Latin America's most celebrated artists.

Two identical statues by Fernando Botero, one blown to pieces in a terrorist bombing, the other donated as a gift for peace.

This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.

An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.

This elegant Colombian fortress was one of the torture headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.