A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

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

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

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

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

You’ll feel like you’ve gone through the looking glass at this contemporary art museum filled with glass sculptures of every size, shape, and color.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.