Places mimigarcia82 Wants to Go

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.

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

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

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

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

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

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

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

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

An award-winning children’s garden enchants visitors at the intersection of natural beauty and fairy tales.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

Take a dip in the world's largest mineral hot springs pool.

Located in the world's highest-altitude Dark Sky Community, this observatory welcomes amateur and professional astronomers alike.