These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.

This abandoned bridge is now a favorite haunt for graffiti artists.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

It's believed Elvis Presley was inspired to write his breakthrough track after staying here.

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

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

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

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

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

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

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

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

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

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

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

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the depths off Key Largo.