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A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

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

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

The ruins of a once massive plantation are now a private residence hidden in the Florida wilderness.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

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

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

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

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the coral reefs off Key Largo.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.