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

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

A failed, un-built suburb that has been going feral for decades.

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

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting 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.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

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

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

The culprit who accidentally lit this 3,500-year-old tree on fire stated "I can't believe I burned down a tree older than Jesus."

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

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

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

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

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

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.