Fernandina Beach, Florida
The Fairbanks House
This grand, Italianate family home built in 1885 is now a charming bed and breakfast.
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Fernandina Beach, Florida
This grand, Italianate family home built in 1885 is now a charming bed and breakfast.
Fernandina Beach, Florida
Amelia Island’s oldest independent bookstore is a cozy oasis for literary exploration.
Fernandina Beach, Florida
Based in a former haberdashery, Florida’s oldest continually-operating bar has a rich nautical history and lots of local lore.
Fernandina Beach, Florida
The largest sand dune in Florida sits inside the state's first Black-owned beach.
St. Augustine, Florida
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
One of the oldest, tallest, and most haunted lighthouses in America.
St. Augustine, Florida
Built around 1723, this is the oldest surviving home in the U.S.'s oldest colonial city.
St. Augustine, Florida
Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.
St. Augustine, Florida
America's first wax museum opened in 1948.
St. Augustine, Florida
It's a pretty creepy lock-up.
St. Augustine, Florida
Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.
St. Augustine, Florida
Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.
St. Augustine, Florida
The smallest walk-in museum in the United States, this miniature museum preserves and displays a range of historic manuscripts.
St. Augustine, Florida
Only through the lens of a microscope can visitors see the true treasures inside this museum.
St. Augustine, Florida
The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest as he attempted to have lunch.
St. Augustine, Florida
St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.
St. Augustine, Florida
A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.
St. Augustine, Florida
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
A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.
St. Augustine, Florida
A Gilded Age hotel turned eclectic museum of Tiffany glass and curiosities
St. Augustine, Florida
A market building entangled in St. Augustine's history of slavery and civil rights protest
St. Augustine, Florida
Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.
St. Augustine, Florida
A bronze tribute to the everyday activists of St. Augustine's civil rights struggle
St. Augustine, Florida
A vestige from St. Augustine's First Spanish Period, built from native coquina rock