Places ashleymlawrence Wants to Go

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

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

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

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

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

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

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

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

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

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

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

This humble hole-in-the-wall is home to an incredible pig ear sandwich and serious civil rights history.

A parade of interactive nostalgia nestled within a giant brick building in downtown Hattiesburg.

In the mid-20th century, a tamale-slinging juke joint attracted a diverse clientele in the Mississippi Delta.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

A museum in Mississippi celebrates the history of Coca-Cola and the man who brought it to the masses.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.