Places nesteves Wants to Go

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.

A time capsule of life in Southern Florida in the 1930s.

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

The longtime home of author Stetson Kennedy, this park counts Woody Guthrie as a former resident.

A Gilded Age hotel turned eclectic museum of Tiffany glass and curiosities

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

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

A bronze tribute to the everyday activists of St. Augustine's civil rights struggle

A market building entangled in St. Augustine's history of slavery and civil rights protest

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

The smallest walk-in museum in the United States, this miniature museum preserves and displays a range of historic manuscripts.

Only through the lens of a microscope can visitors see the true treasures inside this museum.

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

Built around 1723, this is the oldest surviving home in the U.S.'s oldest colonial city.

Part of a highway network meant to connect Miami to Montreal, this 10-mile stretch of road made from red bricks is still around 100 years later.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

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

The largest sand dune in Florida sits inside the state's first Black-owned beach.

If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

A neighborhood grocery store established a local civil rights leader.

Dubbed the "smallest church in America," this tiny sanctuary was a local grocer's dream come true.

Papier-mâché folk art recognizing horrors of slave trade.

An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.