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

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

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

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

This historic headstone is said to mark the final resting place of a doubly-dead white witch.

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

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

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

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

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

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

Recycled junk and fishing buoys litter the yard and facade of this bait shop cum art project.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

The ruins of a once massive plantation are now a private residence hidden in the Florida wilderness.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

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

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

A self-explanatory attraction allows fans to respectfully remember and honor a comedy legend.

Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.