A different kind of swan princess.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

From printing money to live music, this Beaux-Arts style building has had many identities over the last century.

A seemingly inexplicable memorial honors a beloved Tampa fruit-seller.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.

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

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

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

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

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

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

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

The culprit who accidentally lit this 3,500-year-old tree on fire stated "I can't believe I burned down a tree older than Jesus."

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.