History in Florida

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

The bizarre story of the mysterious death and hidden treasure of one of Sanibel Island's early homesteaders.

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.

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

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

This small museum concentrates on the juicy history of orange production in Florida.

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

This isolated airport in the middle of the Everglades sees more alligators than planes.

Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.

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

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

After serving in Vietnam, Korea, and even a stint in the Turkish navy, the unique ship is now open as a museum.

These ruins are all that remain of what a Spanish barrack that likely housed a quarry overseer, masons, and stone cutters involved in the construction of the Castillo de San Marco.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.