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13 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Pensacola, Florida

Updated February 22, 2024
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O’Zone Pizza Pub

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

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Fort Barrancas

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

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Tarkiln Bayou Preserve State Park

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.
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Parts of the battleship are still identifiable when diving the wreck.

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Wreck of the USS Massachusetts

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Graffiti Bridge in 2012.

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Pensacola Graffiti Bridge

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.
Oriskany two years after sinking.

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USS Oriskany

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.
An exposed boiler of the San Pablo.

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San Pablo Shipwreck

Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.
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