Apalachicola, Florida
John Gorrie Ice Machine Museum
Of course the guy with the first patent for an ice machine lived in Florida.
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Places I've been
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Johns Island, South Carolina
The Angel Oak
One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.
Savannah, Georgia
The Pirates' House
This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."
Savannah, Georgia
The Waving Girl
A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.
Savannah, Georgia
Graveface Museum
Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.
St. Augustine, Florida
The Fountain of Youth
A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.
Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville Interchange Spiral
Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.
St. Augustine, Florida
Castle Otttis
Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”
Hawthorne, Florida
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings House and Farmyard
This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.
Evinston, Florida
Wood and Swink General Store and Post Office
This general store is stocked with memorabilia from the 1930s onward—almost none of it for sale.
St. Augustine, Florida
Old Spanish Chimney & Well
These ruins are all that remain of what a Spanish barrack that likely housed a quarry overseer, masons, and stone cutters involved in the construction of the Castillo de San Marco.
St. Augustine, Florida
The Love Trees of St. Augustine
Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.
St. Augustine, Florida
Sacred Cat Rug
Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.
St. Augustine, Florida
The Ponce de León Hotel
A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.
St. Augustine, Florida
Monson Steps
The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest as he attempted to have lunch.
St. Augustine, Florida
St. Photios National Greek Orthodox Shrine
Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.
St. Augustine, Florida
Pirate & Treasure Museum
Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.
St. Augustine, Florida
Dungeon Under the Stairs at the Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse
It's a pretty creepy lock-up.
St. Augustine, Florida
Castillo de San Marcos
The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.
Ponce Inlet, Florida
Ponce De Leon Inlet Lighthouse
The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.
Titusville, Florida
NASA Vehicle Assembly Building
A building so large that it has its own weather.
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Launch Complex 34
This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Grave of Charles Dummett
A local road runs around a memorial to a teenager who died in 1860.
Orlando, Florida
Harry P. Leu Gardens
A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.
