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

Though it may look like it’s missing its outer shell, this skeletal cast-iron tower was built to withstand wind and waves.

These constructed wetlands naturally filter millions of gallons of treated wastewater every day.

These simple structures are living monuments to the fishermen who built this community over a century ago.

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

Tucked away in the forests of North Florida resides a 19th-century lighthouse.

In a time before lifeguards, this house was a sanctuary for the shipwrecked.

The oldest house of worship in Palm Beach has a wonderful tropical garden.

Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

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

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

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

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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

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

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

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

A building so large that it has its own weather.

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