Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Mai-Kai Restaurant
When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida
When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.
Captiva, Florida
This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.
Key West, Florida
Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.
Tampa, Florida
A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.
Miami, Florida
Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.
St. Augustine, Florida
A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.
Key West, Florida
These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.
Coral Gables, Florida
This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.
Lake Wales, Florida
Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.
Chiefland, Florida
A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.
Chipley, Florida
A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.
Key Largo, Florida
Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
North Miami Beach, Florida
St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.
Orlando, Florida
Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Descendants of this colonial Pennsylvania family still travel from far and wide to visit the 300-year-old home of their Quaker ancestors.
Bensalem, Pennsylvania
A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.
Flourtown, Pennsylvania
This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.
Milford, Pennsylvania
One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.
Altoona, Pennsylvania
Behold the rickety glory of one of the oldest roller coasters still standing.