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The Dome Home off Cape Romano.
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Exploring the Hidden Waterways of Florida's Paradise Coast

How to spend three obscure days wandering the Everglades, the Ten Thousand Islands, and Big Cypress Swamp.
A WWII-era watchtower.
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Get Up to Speed With Daytona Beach’s Hidden Wonders

Spend three obscure days discovering the motorsports mecca.
The remains of <em>Ocean Wind</em>.
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Aquatic Adventures Along the Coast of Northwest Florida

How to spend three obscure days exploring Pensacola.
The lighthouse.
Key Biscayne, Florida

Cape Florida Lighthouse

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.
An exposed boiler of the San Pablo.
Pensacola, Florida

San Pablo Shipwreck

Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.
The Green Mound
Ponce Inlet, Florida

The Green Mound

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.
The submarine watchtower in Ormond Beach.
Ormond Beach, Florida

Ormond Beach Watchtower

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.
The boardwalk through a mangrove tunnel.
Naples, Florida

Clam Pass Beach

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.
The Dummett Plantation ruins.
Ormond Beach, Florida

Dummett Sugar Mill Ruins

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.
Oriskany two years after sinking.
Pensacola, Florida

USS Oriskany

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.
Parts of the battleship are still identifiable when diving the wreck.
Pensacola, Florida

Wreck of the USS Massachusetts

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

Fort Barrancas

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.
Castle Otttis
St. Augustine, Florida

Castle Otttis

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

Tarkiln Bayou Preserve State Park

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.
Christ of the Abyss
Key Largo, Florida

Christ of the Abyss

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the depths off Key Largo.
Wakulla Springs.
Crawfordville, Florida

Wakulla Springs

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

Florida Caverns State Park

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.
Conch-shell terrace walls at Otter Mound Preserve.
Marco Island, Florida

Otter Mound Preserve

Decorative shell walls built in the 1940s sit atop an ancient midden created by the Calusa Native Americans.