This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

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

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

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

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

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

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

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

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.

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

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

Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.