Places Michael Barera Wants to Go

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

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

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

An unusual college football tradition involves burying pieces of sod from competitors' turf, replete with tiny coffins and headstones.

This small museum concentrates on the juicy history of orange production in Florida.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

This sidewalk monument honors more than 50 civil rights activists who helped change the face of America.

Of course the guy with the first patent for an ice machine lived in Florida.

Florida's first suspension bridge.

The short-lived history of a new republic and British control in West Florida.

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

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

Georgia may have been on his mind, but this memorial in Florida shows that Greenville was really Ray Charles's childhood home.

Florida’s half-sized replica of the Vietnam Veterans Wall.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

The world's 2nd or 3rd or 4th busiest seaplane base.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

A sculpture of 18 beautiful clay mandalas on display at Warm Mineral Springs in Florida sends a message of world peace.

The story of a Floridian city as told through an obscure sport for retirees.

The Tallahassee Airport serves over half a million passengers a year and is home to some permanent residents too.