Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

This massive vault of comedic history is no joke.

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

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

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

This century-old bakery produces 18,000 loaves of traditional Cuban bread every day.

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

Built in 1927, this pink stucco hotel once hosted stars of Hollywood’s silent movie era. Now it's being brought back to life.

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

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

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

Nearly 200 prehistoric giants lurk among the trees at this theme park.

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

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

A towering, steel behemoth that has graced the skyline of Lakeland, Florida since the early 1980s.

This shrine commemorates the site of the first known Catholic mass in the United States.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

Only through the lens of a microscope can visitors see the true treasures inside this museum.