Places Hairywombat Wants to Go

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

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

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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

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

This Miami cemetery holds the remains of two Cuban presidents, a Nicaraguan president, and the senior Desi Arnaz. And it was once the resting place of the crown prince of Spain.

A gaudy painted elephant stands in memory of south Florida's fallen carnies.

With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.

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

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

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

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

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

A perfect circle of 24 mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric times.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

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

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

If you don't look closely, you might mistake this sculpture for just another passenger waiting at the airport.

A glimpse at Walt Disney's vision for a "community of tomorrow," in miniature.

Opened in 1976, this monster-sized version of the fast-food franchise is sometimes called the Epic McD.

An unassuming corner inside downtown Orlando's library offers a whole new world of the park and its history.

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.

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