Places TinaColadas Wants to Go

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

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

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

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

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.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

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

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

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

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

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

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

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

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.