A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

This former prison is an Art Deco masterpiece with a past full of civil rights flashpoints.

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

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

This creative sculpture was a way to "recycle" an old tree.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

Georgia may have been on his mind, but this memorial in Florida shows that Greenville was really Ray Charles's childhood home.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

A time capsule of Floridian history fights to survive on the banks of Chokoloskee Bay.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

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

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

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

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

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.