"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

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

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

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

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

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

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

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

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

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

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

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

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

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

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.