Monticello, Florida
Nautilus Foundation
The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.
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Monticello, Florida
The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.
Cedar Key, Florida
A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.
DeFuniak Springs, Florida
The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.
Tallahassee, Florida
The ruins of a once massive plantation are now a private residence hidden in the Florida wilderness.
Polk City, Florida
The world's largest private aircraft collection.
St. Augustine, Florida
Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.
Tallahassee, Florida
This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.
Pensacola, Florida
A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.
Lakeland, Florida
A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
DeLand, Florida
The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.
Key West, Florida
An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.
Islamorada, Florida
This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.
Key West, Florida
"We Seceded Where Others Failed."
Venus, Florida
The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.
Tallahassee, Florida
One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.
Tallahassee, Florida
This historic headstone is said to mark the final resting place of a doubly-dead white witch.
Ochopee, Florida
The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.
Tampa, Florida
Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.
Miami, Florida
With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.
Miami, Florida
In memory of the 110 victims of ValuJet Flight 592 that crashed in the Everglades.
Pensacola, Florida
This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.
St. Augustine, Florida
The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.
Bradenton, Florida
These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.
Titusville, Florida
The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.