Places lakupper13 Wants to Go

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

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

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

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

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

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

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

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

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

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

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

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

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

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

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.