Places daugherd Wants to Go

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

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

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

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

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

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

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

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

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

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

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

An underwater city for the dead.

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

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Explore the wide world of miniature trains.

Located inside a former record pressing plant, this recording studio pays homage to the techniques and gear of a bygone age.

An ancient cave system in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills converted to a 1,200-person music venue.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.