New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Old Fort Park
These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.
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New Smyrna Beach, Florida
These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.
St. Petersburg, Florida
History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.
Stuart, Florida
In a time before lifeguards, this house was a sanctuary for the shipwrecked.
Palm Beach, Florida
The oldest house of worship in Palm Beach has a wonderful tropical garden.
Winter Haven, Florida
The world's 2nd or 3rd or 4th busiest seaplane base.
Pensacola, Florida
Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.
Altamonte Springs, Florida
Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.
Palatka, Florida
Public works and national defense project meant to carve a canal all the way across the state of Florida.
Islamorada, Florida
A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.
Palm Beach, Florida
This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.
Monticello, Florida
The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.
Panama City Beach, Florida
A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.
Cedar Key, Florida
A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.
De Leon Springs, Florida
Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.
Pensacola, Florida
One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.
Winter Park, Florida
Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.
Tucson, Arizona
In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.
Tucson, Arizona
Miniature art that tells an enormous story.
Tucson, Arizona
Giant telescope mirrors built in a spinning furnace under a college football stadium.
Tucson, Arizona
This quiet chapel was central to a community of settlers who reclaimed an abandoned fort.
Sells, Arizona
The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.
Tucson, Arizona
An amazing collection of model trains, collectibles, and artifacts that span the last 100 years.
Italy
A two-hour hike in the Orfento Valley leads to the remote ruins.