Places alessandralee Wants to Go

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

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

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

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

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

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

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.