This facility, now a museum, once housed and trained U.S. Army Air Force pilots who flew during the Allied invasion of Normandy.

Step into the past and experience what life was once like in the Sunshine State.

VW heaven in the backwoods of Dade City, now gone.

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

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

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions.

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

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

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

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

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

Georgia may have been on his mind, but this memorial in Florida shows that Greenville was really Ray Charles's childhood home.

An unusual college football tradition involves burying pieces of sod from competitors' turf, replete with tiny coffins and headstones.

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

This creative sculpture was a way to "recycle" an old tree.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

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