Places irlatr723 Wants to Go

Site of the longest gun battle in FBI history.

Play over 120 retro arcade games and pinball machines at this throwback museum.

No one knows how or why this painting appeared to produce crystallized tears.

Florida’s first home built with eco-friendly hempcrete.

Every January 6, young men dive into Spring Bayou in search of a cross and a year's worth of maritime blessings.

Built in 1927, this pink stucco hotel once hosted stars of Hollywood’s silent movie era. Now it's being brought back to life.

These simple structures are living monuments to the fishermen who built this community over a century ago.

A hidden paradise in one of Florida’s most unique rivers.

What started as a tailor shop to help swimmers live their mermaid dreams has grown into a full-scale aquarium, complete with live mermaid shows.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

Though illegal, city officials have made an exception for this work of art.

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.

This general store is stocked with memorabilia from the 1930s onward—almost none of it for sale.

Built around 1723, this is the oldest surviving home in the U.S.'s oldest colonial city.

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.

This shrine commemorates the site of the first known Catholic mass in the United States.

An oversized bluebird statue returns to its rightful place on Vilano Beach pier.

North Central Florida's largest flea market and a weekend roadtripper's dream.

The second oldest jail in Florida gives insight into the realities of the criminal justice system at the turn of the 20th century.

How did a 154-foot-long piece of spacecraft wind up abandoned along the side of a Florida road?

Ch-Ch-Check out the world's largest hand-painted 3D mural.

The oldest continuously-running professional dinner theater in the United States.

This hauntingly beautiful stretch of Florida coastline is covered in sun-bleached trees.