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

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

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

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

A mega theme park-wax museum mélange containing all things biblical.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

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

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

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

North Central Florida's largest flea market and a weekend roadtripper's dream.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

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

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

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

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

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

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