In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

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

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

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

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

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

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

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

The scuba diving training facility was named for the steam that rises from the cave's chimney.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.