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

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

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

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

Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

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

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

Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

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

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

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

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

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

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

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

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

A perfect circle of twenty-four mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric time.