Places brnskll Wants to Go

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

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

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

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

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

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

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

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

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.