Places Bartender Bea Wants to Go

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

A small strip of artistic displays is tucked away in a flea market.

One man's love of sea life and art has turned his home into a temple of outsider island art.

A steamer run aground near Bimini lives a second life as a playground for scuba divers.

Bermuda triangle lighthouse, site of mysterious disappearances, left to crumble into the Atlantic.

Impressive sink holes fill this untouched old-growth forest in the Bahamas.

A full-scale sculpture of a mermaid and baby grand piano hidden underwater by David Copperfield.

One of the most accessible undersea plane wrecks in the world.

This isthmus in the Bahamas narrowly separates the roiling Atlantic from the cool Bight of Eleuthera.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

Inhospitable caverns just beneath this island paradise offer insights into alien worlds.

They squeal, they nosh, they look like predators.

The world’s largest underwater sculpture is found just off the coast of Nassau.

An underwater road considered a possible Atlantis location.

One of the deepest blue holes in the world.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

This natural spring is the winter home to the largest gathering of manatees in the world.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

A hidden paradise in one of Florida’s most unique rivers.

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

Working compound meant to allow visitors to reclaim the values and traditions of the past.

Tucked away in the forests of North Florida resides a 19th-century lighthouse.

Of course the guy with the first patent for an ice machine lived in Florida.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.