This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

This statue inspired by Renoir's famous painting embodies the jovial spirit of Key West.

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

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

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

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

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

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

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

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

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.