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Discover 54 places to experience unusual history in Florida.
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St. Petersburg, Florida
Berlin Wall Section in St. Petersburg
History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.
Stuart, Florida
Gilbert’s Bar House of Refuge
In a time before lifeguards, this house was a sanctuary for the shipwrecked.
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Turtle Mound
Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.
Sanibel, Florida
Grave of Captain Oliver Bowen
The bizarre story of the mysterious death and hidden treasure of one of Sanibel Island's early homesteaders.
Key West, Florida
African Cemetery at Higgs Beach
Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.
St. Augustine, Florida
Andrew Young Crossing
Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.
Tampa, Florida
Tampa Theatre
One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.
Tallahassee, Florida
Lewis Spring House
One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Bartow, Florida
Wonder House
Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.
Vero Beach, Florida
Indian River Citrus Museum
This small museum concentrates on the juicy history of orange production in Florida.
Bradenton, Florida
Braden Castle Ruins
These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.
Ochopee, Florida
Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport
This isolated airport in the middle of the Everglades sees more alligators than planes.
Miami, Florida
Miami City Cemetery
Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.
Key Biscayne, Florida
Cape Florida Lighthouse
Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.
Ormond Beach, Florida
Dummett Sugar Mill Ruins
The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.
Jacksonville, Florida
The USS Orleck
After serving in Vietnam, Korea, and even a stint in the Turkish navy, the unique ship is now open as a museum.
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