Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

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

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

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

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

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

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

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

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

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

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

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

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

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

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

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

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

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.