Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.

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

Decorative shell walls built in the 1940s sit atop an ancient midden created by the Calusa Native Americans.

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

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

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

A nude beach alongside a washed-out road.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

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

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

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

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

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

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

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

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

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

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

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

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