Places lydia7 Wants to Go

An ancient chamber filled with wonderful rock art and a Neolithic carving of a human face.

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

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.

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

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

What started as three small gnomes at the base of a tree has grown into a full-blown gnome home.

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

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

This spooky road cut through a mound of ancient coral might be haunted by a witch.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

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

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

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

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

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

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

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