A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

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

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

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

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

Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

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

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

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

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

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.