Places Awaters83 Wants to Go

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

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

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

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

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

A perfect circle of 24 mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric times.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

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

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

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

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

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."