Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

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

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

The ruins of a once massive plantation are now a private residence hidden in the Florida wilderness.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

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

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

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

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

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

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

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

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

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

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.