How Quincy, Florida became the richest town per capita due to one man's shrewd business acumen and taste for fizzy drinks.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

A sculpture of 18 beautiful clay mandalas on display at Warm Mineral Springs in Florida sends a message of world peace.

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

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

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

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

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

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

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

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

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

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

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

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

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

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

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

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

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