Places alessandralee Wants to Go

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

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

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

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

This historic headstone is said to mark the final resting place of a doubly-dead white witch.

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

A failed, un-built suburb that has been going feral for decades.

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

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

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

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