Places to visit in Florida, United States
17 places to visit in Florida, United States, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Everglades National Park, Castillo de San Marcos, Disney's Animal Kingdom and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Florida volume.
1 UNESCO World Heritage site · 16 Famous places to visit
UNESCO World Heritage sites in Florida (1)
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Everglades National Park
A vast subtropical wetland at the southern tip of Florida, protecting the southern fifth of the original Everglades. Sawgrass marsh, mangroves and slow-moving water make it the one place where alligators and crocodiles live side by side.
Famous places to visit in Florida (16)
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Castillo de San Marcos
The oldest masonry fort in the continental United States, built by the Spanish on the western shore of Matanzas Bay. Its star-shaped walls are made of coquina, a stone of compressed shells that absorbed cannon fire rather than shattering.
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Disney's Animal Kingdom
A zoological theme park that was the largest theme park in the world when it opened, covering about 230 hectares. Real animals on open savanna share it with imagined lands, and the Tree of Life, carved with hundreds of animal figures, stands at its centre.
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Disney's Hollywood Studios
Disney's third park in Florida, opened in 1989 as Disney-MGM Studios and themed on an idealised Golden Age Hollywood. Its rides draw on film, television and music, with later lands given over to Star Wars and Toy Story.
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Epcot
Walt Disney World's second park, opened in 1982 and often called a permanent world's fair. Spaceship Earth, a giant geodesic sphere, marks the entrance, and a lagoon beyond is ringed by pavilions themed on countries from Mexico to Japan.
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Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
The visitor centre of NASA's spaceport on Merritt Island, the launch site of the Apollo Moon missions and the Space Shuttle. The orbiter Atlantis is displayed here among historic spacecraft, and bus tours run out towards the launch facilities.
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Magic Kingdom
The first theme park at Walt Disney World, opened in 1971 and laid out after Disneyland in California. Cinderella Castle stands at the end of Main Street, U.S.A., and the lands around it are built from fairy tales and Disney films.
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Miami Beach Art Deco District
A historic district in South Beach holding some 960 buildings, most of them from the 1920s to the 1940s in Art Deco, Streamline Moderne and Mediterranean Revival styles. Neon signs, porthole windows and pastel facades run along Ocean Drive and Collins Avenue.
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SeaWorld Orlando
A marine animal park just outside Orlando and one of the most visited amusement parks in the United States. Its days mix roller coasters with aquariums and animal shows, and it sits beside Aquatica and Discovery Cove, run by the same company.
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Seven Mile Bridge
A bridge across open sea in the Florida Keys, linking Knight's Key in the Middle Keys to Little Duck Key in the Lower Keys. It carries the Overseas Highway, and the older bridge alongside, first built for Henry Flagler's railway, is now partly a path for walkers.
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South Beach
The southern end of Miami Beach, a strip of sand and city between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic. Pastel Art Deco hotels line Ocean Drive, and the broad beach in front of them is one of the best known in America.
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Southernmost Point Buoy
A big painted concrete buoy on the corner of South and Whitehead Streets, set up by the city in 1983 to mark the southernmost point of the continental United States. It is not quite the true southernmost point, but the queue for a photograph is part of the visit.
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Universal Epic Universe
The newest park at Universal Orlando, opened in May 2025 a few kilometres south of the resort's older parks. Its five worlds, from Super Nintendo World and the Isle of Berk to the Ministry of Magic, open off a central Celestial Park.
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Universal Islands of Adventure
The second park at Universal Orlando, opened in 1999 and laid out as a ring of themed islands around a lagoon. Hogsmeade and Hogwarts castle sit here, alongside lands for Marvel superheroes, Jurassic Park and Dr. Seuss.
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Universal Studios Florida
The first park at Universal Orlando, opened in 1990 with rides, shows and streets built around films and television. Diagon Alley from the Harry Potter films is here, and the Hogwarts Express runs from it to the sister park next door.
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Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
The winter villa of businessman James Deering, built on Biscayne Bay in the early 20th century in the manner of an Italian Renaissance house. Formal Italian gardens step down towards the water, with native woodland and a village of outbuildings beyond.
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Walt Disney World
A vast resort southwest of Orlando, opened on 1 October 1971, with four theme parks, Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom, along with water parks and dozens of hotels. Cinderella Castle at Magic Kingdom is the picture most people carry home.
Collecting in Florida
What are the best places to visit in Florida?
LOQAH lists 17 places in Florida. The best known include Everglades National Park, Castillo de San Marcos, Disney's Animal Kingdom, Disney's Hollywood Studios and Epcot. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Florida?
17, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Florida?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Florida before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Florida and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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