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

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

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

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

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

The story of a Floridian city as told through an obscure sport for retirees.

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

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

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

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

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

Of course the guy with the first patent for an ice machine lived in Florida.

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

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

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

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

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

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