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

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

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

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

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

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

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

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

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

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

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

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

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the depths off Key Largo.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

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

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

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.