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

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

With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

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

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

A nude beach alongside a washed-out road.

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

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

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

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

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

North Central Florida's largest flea market and a weekend roadtripper's dream.

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

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

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

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.