Places caitlinhug7 Wants to Go

The ruins of a once massive plantation are now a private residence hidden in the Florida wilderness.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

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

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.

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.

A nude beach alongside a washed-out road.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

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

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

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

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.