This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

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

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

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

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

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

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the depths off Key Largo.

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

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

The story of a Floridian city as told through an obscure sport for retirees.

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

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.