Places anastasiadavis Wants to Go

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

This Buddhist temple is home to a number of towering statues spread over a peaceful wooded park.

This general store is stocked with memorabilia from the 1930s onward—almost none of it for sale.

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.

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

Part of a highway network meant to connect Miami to Montreal, this 10-mile stretch of road made from red bricks is still around 100 years later.

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

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

What started as three small gnomes at the base of a tree has grown into a full-blown gnome home.

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

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

A different kind of swan princess.

A spirited shopping experience.

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

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.