Places acrig Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

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

An underwater city for the dead.

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

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

The sign that drew attention to a young boy's cucumber stand is now the name of his fruit superstore.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

After a long career, a disastrous sinking, and a half-successful salvage, this Naval vessel-turned-artificial reef ended up exactly where she was supposed to—with a little help from nature.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

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