A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

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

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

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

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

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

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

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

The scuba diving training facility was named for the steam that rises from the cave's chimney.

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

Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.

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

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