An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

Get up close with some alligators at this roadside farm attraction.

World's largest magnetic research facility.

Tucked away in the forests of North Florida resides a 19th-century lighthouse.

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.

View rare birds and interact with lemurs at this nonprofit run entirely by volunteers.

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

This small island was the first National Wildlife Refuge ever created in the United States.

Florida's first suspension bridge.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

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

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

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

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

Recycled junk and fishing buoys litter the yard and facade of this bait shop cum art project.

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

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

The scuba diving training facility was named for the steam that rises from the cave's chimney.

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

Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.