Animals in Florida

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

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

Pay homage to a mysterious feline artifact outside of this Florida museum.

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

A tribute to the furry local heroes who helped get residents through many tough times.

Owned by no one but beloved by all, Brownie was a good dog.

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

This divisive system of turtle tunnels was built to save animals stranded after a highway split a lake in half.

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

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.