Places Michael Barera Wants to Go

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.

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

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

World's largest magnetic research facility.

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

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the coral reefs off Key Largo.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

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

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

In memory of the 110 victims of ValuJet Flight 592 that crashed in the Everglades.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.