Polk City, Florida
Fantasy of Flight
The world's largest private aircraft collection.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
St. Augustine, Florida
Castillo de San Marcos
The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.
Tampa, Florida
Henry B. Plant Museum
Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Leslie Nielsen's Gravesite
A self-explanatory attraction allows fans to respectfully remember and honor a comedy legend.
Miami, Florida
Ferdinand Magellan Presidential Railcar
With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.
Tampa, Florida
Ulele Fairyland Figures
These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.
Tallahassee, Florida
Lewis Spring House
One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Key Largo, Florida
The African Queen
The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.
Titusville, Florida
NASA Vehicle Assembly Building
A building so large that it has its own weather.
Sarasota, Florida
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.
West Palm Beach, Florida
The President John F. Kennedy Bunker
Built in just a little over a week this preserved bunker was created to protect our most attractive POTUS while he was on vacation.
St. Petersburg, Florida
Chihuly Collection
The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Mai-Kai Restaurant
When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.
Marianna, Florida
Florida Caverns State Park
The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.
Tampa, Florida
Dysfunctional Grace Art Co.
An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.
St. Augustine, Florida
Pirate & Treasure Museum
Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.
Key West, Florida
Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Key Largo, Florida
Underwater Hotel in Key Largo
Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.
Weeki Wachee, Florida
Weeki Wachee: ‘City of Live Mermaids’
Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.
Chiefland, Florida
Manatee Springs State Park
A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.
Lake Wales, Florida
Bok Tower Gardens
Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.
Coral Gables, Florida
Venetian Pool
This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.
Key West, Florida
Dry Tortugas
These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.
Alexandria, Virginia
George Washington’s Whiskey
Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.
