Working compound meant to allow visitors to reclaim the values and traditions of the past.

Ancient church constructed with a special wood that preserves prints from the past.

How Quincy, Florida became the richest town per capita due to one man's shrewd business acumen and taste for fizzy drinks.

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

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

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

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

This historic headstone is said to mark the final resting place of a doubly-dead white witch.

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

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

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

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.