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.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

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

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.

Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.

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