Tampa, Florida
Henry B. Plant Museum
Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.
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Tampa, Florida
Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.
Lakeland, Florida
A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
DeLand, Florida
The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.
Islamorada, Florida
This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.
Key West, Florida
The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.
De Leon Springs, Florida
Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.
Pensacola, Florida
This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.
Titusville, Florida
The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.
Tampa, Florida
A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.
Key Largo, Florida
The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.
Opa-locka, Florida
America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
Longwood, Florida
The culprit who accidentally lit this 3,500-year-old tree on fire stated "I can't believe I burned down a tree older than Jesus."
North Fort Myers, Florida
The largest retailer of seashells in the world.
St. Augustine, Florida
St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.
Ponce Inlet, Florida
The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.
Bradenton, Florida
These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.
Fort Myers, Florida
One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.
Tampa, Florida
Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.
St. Augustine, Florida
The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.
Titusville, Florida
A building so large that it has its own weather.
Cape Canaveral, Florida
This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.
Estero, Florida
Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.
Key Biscayne, Florida
Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.
Merritt Island, Florida
Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.