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

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

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

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

The graves in Florida's oldest Black cemeteries are marked with shells, stones, and mementos of the deceased.

The bizarre story of the mysterious death and hidden treasure of one of Sanibel Island's early homesteaders.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

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

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

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

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

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.