Places mmhales Wants to Go

The grave of the first dolphin to play Flipper is located at the Dolphin Research Center.

Named from the Spanish for “beautiful woods,” this public cemetery is spread across 29 acres of moss-draped oaks.

Tucked away in Jacksonville's oldest neighborhood, this museum stands as a repository and celebration of outsider art.

The second oldest jail in Florida gives insight into the realities of the criminal justice system at the turn of the 20th century.

This shrine commemorates the site of the first known Catholic mass in the United States.

Ch-Ch-Check out the world's largest hand-painted 3D mural.

This Miami cemetery holds the remains of two Cuban presidents, a Nicaraguan president, and the senior Desi Arnaz. And it was once the resting place of the crown prince of Spain.

The United States' only educational center specializing in disease vectors and mosquitoes.

This liminal destination combines creaky carnival rides, a classic car museum, and luck-of-the-draw flea market finds surrounded by dust and drive-in movie screens.

This post-war motel embodies a little-known, Miami-born architectural style.

Though illegal, city officials have made an exception for this work of art.

This mass grave for victims of a massive hurricane remained hidden until 1991.

Interact with jury-selected works of art at this Gulf Coast underwater museum.

A local road runs around a memorial to a teenager who died in 1860.

A hidden paradise in one of Florida’s most unique rivers.

Kitschy nautical-themed bar has offered mermaid shows and underwater ballet since 1956.

No one knows how or why this painting appeared to produce crystallized tears.

The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest as he attempted to have lunch.

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

This natural spring is the winter home to the largest gathering of manatees in the world.

The graves in Florida's oldest Black cemeteries are marked with shells, stones, and mementos of the deceased.

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

Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.