Places Heather Marcello Wants to Go

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

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

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

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

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

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

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

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

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

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

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

The last of its kind in the country.