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

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

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

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

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

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

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

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

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

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

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

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.