The ground is filled with more than semi-cursed treasure chests and fully candied dinosaur bones; it also contains baby flowers. Explore plants in their equally adorable adult forms with today's Groupon: for $8, you get two adult admissions into a lush local landscape at Sunken Gardens in St. Petersburg (a $16 value). Though only 100 years old (barely a teenager by tree reckoning), St. Petersburg’s oldest “living” museum already plays home to more than 50,000 tropical plants and flowers. The tropical paradise's pathways wind through the verdant gardens, revealing cascading waterfalls, exotic plant life, and phantasmagoric portals to other dimensions as you experience the florae of old Florida at its finest. A single-day pass to the gardens provides an escape plan for hooky-playing horticulture fans any day of the week. Take this opportunity to commune with nature or lure a basement-dwelling World of Warcraft addict out of his or her beanbag-chaired habitat into a sunlit world of fresh air, flowers, and trees.

Reviews

TripAdvisors give Sunken Gardens four owl eyes on average. Five Insider Pagers give it a four-star average rating, and three Yahoo Travelers give it a 4.5-star average rating.

• There is a butterfly area, [sic] you just have to check your map. The whole place was amazing. We walked through twice! – vrlel, TripAdvisor
• The Sunken Gardens are great to go and visit for a few hours on a weekend afternoon. They have beautiful scenery and greenery and it's a great place to take pictures. – Kelly S., Insider Pages