Museums in Florida

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

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

Of course the guy with the first patent for an ice machine lived in Florida.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

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

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

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

Built in just a little over a week this preserved bunker was created to protect our most attractive POTUS while he was on vacation.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.