Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

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

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

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

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

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

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

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

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.