Polk City, Florida
Fantasy of Flight
The world's largest private aircraft collection.
Places I've been
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Polk City, Florida
The world's largest private aircraft collection.
Key West, Florida
An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.
Lakeland, Florida
A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Key West, Florida
A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.
St. Augustine, Florida
St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.
Fort Myers, Florida
One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.
North Fort Myers, Florida
The largest retailer of seashells in the world.
Bradenton, Florida
These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.
St. Augustine, Florida
The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.
Ormond Beach, Florida
The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.
St. Augustine, Florida
Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.
Big Pine Key, Florida
Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.
St. Augustine, Florida
It's a pretty creepy lock-up.
St. Augustine, Florida
An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.
Captiva, Florida
This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.
Key West, Florida
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
Ona, Florida
Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.
Flagler Beach, Florida
The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.
St. Augustine, Florida
A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
St. Augustine, Florida
A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.
St. Petersburg, Florida
Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.
Sarasota, Florida
A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.
Columbia, South Carolina
This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.