This small island was the first National Wildlife Refuge ever created in the United States.

Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

A time capsule of Floridian history fights to survive on the banks of Chokoloskee Bay.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

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

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

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

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

A failed, un-built suburb that has been going feral for decades.

A nude beach alongside a washed-out road.

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

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

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.