Places owenstm34 Wants to Go

Amid the hustle and bustle of Miami’s Financial District sits a mausoleum-turned-monument.

This sculpture in the Miami Design District is one of the few public works of Virgil Abloh, an internationally recognized fashion designer and creative.

This extensive display of bobbleheads is a tribute to one of the most unique pieces of sports memorabilia.

This Miami cemetery holds the remains of two Cuban presidents, a Nicaraguan president, and the senior Desi Arnaz. And it was once the resting place of the crown prince of Spain.

This post-war motel embodies a little-known, Miami-born architectural style.

A gaudy painted elephant stands in memory of south Florida's fallen carnies.

Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.

In memory of the 110 victims of ValuJet Flight 592 that crashed in the Everglades.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

A perfect circle of 24 mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric times.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

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

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

An underwater city for the dead.

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

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

The world's only underwater laboratory where "aquanauts" study oceanic life.