This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

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

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

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

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

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

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

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

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

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

Public works and national defense project meant to carve a canal all the way across the state of Florida.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

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

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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

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

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.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.