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The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

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

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

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

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

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

Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

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

A lone gunner's station is all that remains of a replica Spanish Fort in Florida.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

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

Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.

The graves in Florida's oldest Black cemeteries are marked with shells, stones, and mementos of the deceased.

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

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.