Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.

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

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

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

VW heaven in the backwoods of Dade City, now gone.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.