The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

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

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

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

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

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

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

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

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.