A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

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

An idyllic traditional timber village on a picturesque hill was built for a film.

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

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

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

The scuba diving training facility was named for the steam that rises from the cave's chimney.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

An underwater city for the dead.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

A mega theme park-wax museum mélange containing all things biblical.

A local road runs around a memorial to a teenager who died in 1860.

In a time before lifeguards, this house was a sanctuary for the shipwrecked.

The bizarre story of the mysterious death and hidden treasure of one of Sanibel Island's early homesteaders.

Every January 6, young men dive into Spring Bayou in search of a cross and a year's worth of maritime blessings.

The graves in Florida's oldest Black cemeteries are marked with shells, stones, and mementos of the deceased.

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.