Places educatorclaire Wants to Go

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

This former prison is an Art Deco masterpiece with a past full of civil rights flashpoints.

The timeworn "Yankee Stadium" of the fastest game in the world isn't going anywhere.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

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

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the coral reefs off Key Largo.

This Florida arena, once host to "the fastest game in the world," has sat empty for 25 years.

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

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

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

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

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

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

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

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."