Places gingifreeman Wants to Go

Welcome to the oldest courthouse in continuous use in Florida.

This historic eatery pays tribute to the building’s earliest roots as a hardware store.

A public, open-air art exhibit featuring world-renowned sculptures hides in plain sight on the outskirts of Orlando.

Where friendly staff pair your cigar with coffee and pan con lechon.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

One of the oldest restaurants in Orlando is a no-frills seafood shack still shucking fresh oysters by the bucket.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.

During segregation, this Orlando hotel hosted performers like Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Now it's a museum dedicated to preserving local Black history.

A different kind of swan princess.

An unassuming corner inside downtown Orlando's library offers a whole new world of the park and its history.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

Get up close to an F-4 Phantom flown in the Vietnam War at this Florida park.

Measuring approximately 200 feet long, Swampy is the world's largest alligator-shaped building.

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

Juicy Argentinian empanadas so good they’re worth a stain or two

A pan-Latin bistro where the world comes together over homemade sandwiches and a cup of coffee.

Come for the mofongo, stay for the Puerto Rican house party.

The whole world is cooking in one Kissimmee parking lot.

This restaurant feels like a trip to the Dominican Republic—right down to the beer served in a hollowed-out drum.

Brazilian food with fresh ingredients, like basil snipped from a backyard garden