One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

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

Ruins of an old sugar mill sitting quietly next to a park in rural Florida.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

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

An author's private collection of quirky travel-trinkets and oddities has become a rotating mini-museum in the window of a local bookstore.

These simple structures are living monuments to the fishermen who built this community over a century ago.

Built in 1927, this pink stucco hotel once hosted stars of Hollywood’s silent movie era. Now it's being brought back to life.

This massive vault of comedic history is no joke.

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

Florida’s first home built with eco-friendly hempcrete.

Though it may look like it’s missing its outer shell, this skeletal cast-iron tower was built to withstand wind and waves.

No one knows how or why this painting appeared to produce crystallized tears.

An abandoned Victorian house transformed into a museum and store filled with taxidermy and vintage goods.

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

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

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

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

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

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

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

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