Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

A nude beach alongside a washed-out road.

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

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

VW heaven in the backwoods of Dade City, now gone.

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

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

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

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

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.