Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

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

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

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

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

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

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

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the depths off Key Largo.

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

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

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

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.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

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

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

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

This sci-fi gazebo located in a Washington power town is made from old bits of industrial electrical equipment.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.