Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.

An unusual college football tradition involves burying pieces of sod from competitors' turf, replete with tiny coffins and headstones.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

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

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

Georgia may have been on his mind, but this memorial in Florida shows that Greenville was really Ray Charles's childhood home.

A gaudy painted elephant stands in memory of south Florida's fallen carnies.

This isolated airport in the middle of the Everglades sees more alligators than planes.

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

Ancient church constructed with a special wood that preserves prints from the past.

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

Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

In memory of the 110 victims of ValuJet Flight 592 that crashed in the Everglades.

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