Places chelsb423 Wants to Go

The world's 2nd or 3rd or 4th busiest seaplane base.

Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

Get up close with some alligators at this roadside farm attraction.

Decorative shell walls built in the 1940s sit atop an ancient midden created by the Calusa Native Americans.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

A lone gunner's station is all that remains of a replica Spanish Fort in Florida.

This isolated airport in the middle of the Everglades sees more alligators than planes.

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

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

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

Ancient church constructed with a special wood that preserves prints from the past.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

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

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

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

Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.