For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

How Quincy, Florida became the richest town per capita due to one man's shrewd business acumen and taste for fizzy drinks.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

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

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.

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

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

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

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

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