This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

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

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

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

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

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

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

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

An underwater city for the dead.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

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

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

The narrowest street in Paris.