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Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

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

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

An underwater city for the dead.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

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

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.

Social saloon from a scrapped trans-Pacific 19th century steamer.

A unique museum where guests can rent and operate a locomotive.

Lombard Street may be more famous, but this is the real “crookedest street in the world.”

Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.

The last used bookstore in Downtown San Francisco is one of the smallest bookstores just about anywhere.