Anticipating that rockets would need to be constructed for NASA's upcoming Apollo moon missions, the Aerojet-General team decided to build a special factory in the Florida Everglades in 1963.... »

Inspired Inventions, Instruments of Science, Intriguing Environs, Architectural Oddities | Edited by Nicholas Jackson

UPDATE: According to a local, about six months ago (as of May 2012) the owner cut the planes into segments and hauled them off to be sold as scrap metal; the planes are no longer present, and the... »

Retro-Tech, Incredible Ruins | Edited by re_nakaba, Dylan and others

Legend has it that Jose Gasparillo née Gaspar, "the last of the buccaneers," plundered over 400 ships over the course of 40 years of tyranny on the high seas. In no region did he make more of an... »

Wondrous Performances | Edited by littlebrumble, wythe and others

Certainly, the British government used to control the thirteen original colonies, and though you may have thought that the Revolutionary War (and the War of 1812) solved that conundrum, according... »

Intriguing Environs, Micro-Nations | Edited by M Rebekah Otto and Dylan

The artist Rubens and the elephant Dumbo may not have much in common on the surface, but John Ringling, the entrepreneur and circus magnate, unites them. During his lifetime, John Ringling,... »

Unique Collections, Eccentric Homes | Edited by M Rebekah Otto

The Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is the world's fourth largest building by volume. Completed in 1966, the VAB also holds the record of the largest... »

Inspired Inventions, Instruments of Science | Edited by Trevor

Cyrus Reed Teed was an eclectic physician whose experiments in alchemy often involved dangerously high levels of electricity. In one such experiment in 1869, Teed was electrocuted so badly that he... »

Hoaxes and Pseudoscience, Lost Tribes, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by anhie and tonka922

Juan Ponce de Leon first stumbled upon this stretch of islands in 1513, back when they were nothing more than clusters of coral inhabited by sea turtles. Upon his discovery, de Leon named the... »

Watery Wonders, Anomalous Islands, Fascinating Fauna, Architectural Oddities, Incredible Ruins | Edited by anhie and ShaneStringer

The Citrus Tower was built in 1956 on once pristine orange grove lands, on the unusually high, rolling hills of Clermont. The tower rises 226 ft. above ground level, putting the total height above... »

Architectural Oddities | Edited by robfromorlando

Dave Shealy is the Jane Goodall of the Florida Everglades. Shealy has spent his entire life studying a smelly hominid cryptid known as the Skunk Ape, and has established the official Skunk Ape... »

Fascinating Fauna, Hoaxes and Pseudoscience | Edited by anhie