Every January 6, young men dive into Spring Bayou in search of a cross and a year's worth of maritime blessings.

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

This sidewalk monument honors more than 50 civil rights activists who helped change the face of America.

Florida’s half-sized replica of the Vietnam Veterans Wall.

This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.

A lone gunner's station is all that remains of a replica Spanish Fort in Florida.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

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

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

Working compound meant to allow visitors to reclaim the values and traditions of the past.

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

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

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

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.