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Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

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

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

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

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

Tucked away in the forests of North Florida resides a 19th-century lighthouse.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

A self-explanatory attraction allows fans to respectfully remember and honor a comedy legend.

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

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

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

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

The sign that drew attention to a young boy's cucumber stand is now the name of his fruit superstore.

Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.