Places bibliophile22 Wants to Go

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

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

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

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the coral reefs off Key Largo.

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.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

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

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

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

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

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

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

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.

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

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.