Weird Florida

by Lindsantiago

141 Places

Lake Helen, Florida

Cassadaga

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

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Safety Harbor, Florida

Whimzeyland

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

KatieBush

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Orlando, Florida

Harry P. Leu Gardens

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

themandino

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DeLand, Florida

Hontoon Island Owl Totem

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

Jim924

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St. Petersburg, Florida

Salvador Dalí Museum

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

Molly McBride Jacobson

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Key West, Florida

Dry Tortugas

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

anhie

Lake Wales, Florida

Bok Tower Gardens

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

Coral Gables, Florida

Venetian Pool

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

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Key Biscayne, Florida

Neptune Memorial Reef

An underwater city for the dead.

Annetta Black

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Homestead, Florida

Ed Leedskalnin's Coral Castle

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Dylan

Chiefland, Florida

Manatee Springs

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

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Key West, Florida

Robert the Doll

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.

anhie

South Bay, Florida

Gatorland

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

Key West, Florida

Captain Tony's Saloon

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

Luke J Spencer

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North Miami Beach, Florida

The Cloisters of the Ancient Spanish Monastery

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

rebeccaclara

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Key Biscayne, Florida

Stiltsville

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

Nicholas Jackson

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Tallahassee, Florida

Lichgate on High Road

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

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Miami Beach, Florida

World Erotic Art Museum

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

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Key West, Florida

Robert the Doll

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.

anhie

Homosassa, Florida

Monkey Island of Homosassa

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

Rachel

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Gasparilla Pirate Festival

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

littlebrumble

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Islamorada, Florida

Betsy the Lobster

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

EricGrundhauser

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Big Pine Key, Florida

Underwater Music Festival

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

anhie

Key West, Florida

Key West High Heel Shoe Drop

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

sandwichgirl

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Riverview, Florida

International Independent Showmen’s Museum

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

EricGrundhauser

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Gibsonton, Florida

Gibsonton, Florida

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

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Ochopee, Florida

Skunk Ape Research Headquarters

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

anhie

Captiva, Florida

The Bubble Room

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

Joey Freshwater

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North Miami Beach, Florida

Miami Showmen's Association Rest

A gaudy painted elephant stands in memory of south Florida's fallen carnies.

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St. Augustine, Florida

St. Augustine Airplane Graveyard

Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.

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St. Augustine, Florida

Castle Otttis

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

Tony Dunnell

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Lakeland, Florida

'Child of the Sun' Campus

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Elena L Haas

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Ferdinand Magellan Presidential Railcar

With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.

Elliot Carter

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Sanibel, Florida

The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum

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

Anna Marlis Burgard

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Carrabelle, Florida

Carrabelle Bottle House

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

Mom0ja

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Marianna, Florida

Florida Caverns State Park

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

Kerry Wolfe

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Bradenton, Florida

The Sea Hagg

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

J Ginsberg

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Hallandale Beach, Florida

Pegasus and Dragon

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

Kerry Wolfe

Added by Kerry Wolfe

Boca Chica, Florida

Geiger Key Abandoned Beach

A nude beach alongside a washed-out road.

Mark Casey

Added by Mark Casey

North Fort Myers, Florida

The Shell Factory

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

MattA

Key West, Florida

Nancy Forrester's Secret Garden

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

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Kissimmee, Florida

Splendid China

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

Yelle

Weeki Wachee, Florida

Weeki Wachee: City of Live Mermaids

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

anhie

Key Largo, Florida

Underwater Hotel in Key Largo

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

Mark Casey

Added by Mark Casey

Key West, Florida

Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum

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

Chipley, Florida

Seacrest Wolf Preserve

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

ronin

Lake Wales, Florida

Spook Hill

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Titusville, Florida

American Space Museum

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

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