A historic landmark and museum filled with curious objects representing the history of Key West.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

This onetime gambler’s den was turned into a destination restaurant, reachable only by boat.

This distinctive lighthouse with an iron skeleton is one of the tallest on the East Coast.

More than 20,000 butterflies can be seen at this spectacular park and research center.

Based in a former haberdashery, Florida’s oldest continually-operating bar has a rich nautical history and lots of local lore.

Though illegal, city officials have made an exception for this work of art.

One of the oldest, tallest, and most haunted lighthouses in America.

This liminal destination combines creaky carnival rides, a classic car museum, and luck-of-the-draw flea market finds surrounded by dust and drive-in movie screens.

In a time before lifeguards, this house was a sanctuary for the shipwrecked.

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

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.

The sign that drew attention to a young boy's cucumber stand is now the name of his fruit superstore.

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

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

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

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

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