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

Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

This divisive system of turtle tunnels was built to save animals stranded after a highway split a lake in half.

Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.

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

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

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

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

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

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

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

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

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

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

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

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the depths off Key Largo.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

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