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

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

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

A creative deviation in this post office's design was once a source of controversy.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

Dedicated to the victims of one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the United States in recorded history.

This small museum is dedicated to the history of Havana and Florida's once-booming tobacco industry.

In a time before lifeguards, this house was a sanctuary for the shipwrecked.

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

Of course the guy with the first patent for an ice machine lived in Florida.

The world's 2nd or 3rd or 4th busiest seaplane base.

This 15-foot former Johnny Appleseed has given up his apples for donuts and coffee.

A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.

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

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

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

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

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

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

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