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

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

The ruins of a once massive plantation are now a private residence hidden in the Florida wilderness.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

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

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

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

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

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

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

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

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

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

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