In our bustling, churning cultural metropolis, straying from the beaten path of (admittedly wonderful) high-profile, landmark museums can pay big dividends for lovers of art, history, oddities, and Billy Idol.

From entertaining to edifying, and beguiling to flabbergasting, here are thirteen of our favorite gallery detours.

Ancient Spanish Monastery

16711 W. Dixie Hwy., North Miami Beach

305-945-1461

spanishmonastery.com Housing what is likely the only gift shop in the world offering holy water by the bottle, pewter medals of saints, and...enamel pins depicting Jim Carrey in a tutu — the sanitarium sequence of Ace Ventura was filmed on the grounds outside — the Ancient Spanish Monastery is not only a spiritually galvanizing architectural marvel, but also one of most singular stop

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