A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

The sign that drew attention to a young boy's cucumber stand is now the name of his fruit superstore.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.