One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

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

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

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

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.

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

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

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

This small island was the first National Wildlife Refuge ever created in the United States.

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

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

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

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

Tucked away down this Baytown alley exists a one-of-a-kind art exhibit of technicolor umbrellas.