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

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

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

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

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

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

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

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.