The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

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

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

This historic headstone is said to mark the final resting place of a doubly-dead white witch.

Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

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

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the depths off Key Largo.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

The ruins of a once massive plantation are now a private residence hidden in the Florida wilderness.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

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

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

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

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