Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

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."

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

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

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

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

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

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

Owned by no one but beloved by all, Brownie was a good dog.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

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

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

Public works and national defense project meant to carve a canal all the way across the state of Florida.

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

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.