Perry, Florida
Ruins of The Hampton Springs Hotel
The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.
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Perry, Florida
The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.
Tallahassee, Florida
One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
White Springs, Florida
The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.
Falmouth, Florida
The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.
Madeira Beach, Florida
Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.
Big Pine Key, Florida
Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.
Key West, Florida
Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.
St. Petersburg, Florida
A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.
Bartow, Florida
Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.
Key Biscayne, Florida
An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.
Marianna, Florida
The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.
Jacksonville, Florida
This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.
Naples, Florida
A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.
Chiefland, Florida
A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.
Lake Wales, Florida
Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.
Coral Gables, Florida
This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.
Nashville, Indiana
Where hikers on the Tecumseh Trail can exchange a dirty sock for a free geode.
Chesterfield, New Hampshire
Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.
Waltham, Massachusetts
Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.
Brookline, Massachusetts
The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.
Edgartown, Massachusetts
The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.
Amherst, Massachusetts
This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.