These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

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

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

You’ll feel like you’ve gone through the looking glass at this contemporary art museum filled with glass sculptures of every size, shape, and color.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

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

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

A lone gunner's station is all that remains of a replica Spanish Fort in Florida.

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

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.