Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

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

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

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

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

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

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

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

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

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

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

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

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

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.