This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

World's largest magnetic research facility.

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

A time capsule of Floridian history fights to survive on the banks of Chokoloskee Bay.

Working compound meant to allow visitors to reclaim the values and traditions of the past.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

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

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

Would you like a sleeper hold with that?

Recycled junk and fishing buoys litter the yard and facade of this bait shop cum art project.

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

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

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

The ruins of a once massive plantation are now a private residence hidden in the Florida wilderness.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.