"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

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

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

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

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

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

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

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

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

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

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

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

A building so large that it has its own weather.

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

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

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

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

North Central Florida's largest flea market and a weekend roadtripper's dream.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.