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

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

This 1920s railway depot is now home to two unique museums complete with a miniature train ride.

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

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

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

The bizarre story of the mysterious death and hidden treasure of one of Sanibel Island's early homesteaders.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

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

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

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

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

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

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

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

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

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

You’ll feel like you’ve gone through the looking glass at this contemporary art museum filled with glass sculptures of every size, shape, and color.