Places sarahebpms Wants to Go

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

An underwater city for the dead.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

The ruins of an open-air theater built on this Georgia island in the 1970s.

The largest Jewish museum in the southeastern U.S. houses a permanent Holocaust exhibit emphasizing the strength of its survivors.

A modest walled graveyard where nobody is actually buried.

Turns out fishing with dynamite isn't all that safe.

This monument claims to display the first pot used to cook a famed Southern stew.

Georgia’s last drive-in movie theater is a relic of a bygone era.

Unruly residents were housed in this one-person cell until the Black Maria arrived.

A popular oddity on display in a stately building, offering a symbolic commentary.

A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.

This protected reserve is home to a rare and beautiful species of flower.

A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.