Places katylynnsays Wants to Go

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

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

This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

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

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

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

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

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

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.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

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

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

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

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

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.