It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

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

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

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.

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

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

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

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

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

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

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

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

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

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

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

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

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

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