Places anniet924 Wants to Go

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

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

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

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

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

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

VW heaven in the backwoods of Dade City, now gone.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

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

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

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

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

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

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