Key West, Florida
Southernmost Point of the Continental U.S.
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
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Key West, Florida
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
Key Largo, Florida
An underwater statue of Christ blesses the coral reefs off Key Largo.
Key Biscayne, Florida
A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.
St. Augustine, Florida
Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.
St. Augustine, Florida
The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.
Homosassa, Florida
In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.
Sarasota, Florida
A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.
Apollo Beach, Florida
Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.
Tampa, Florida
Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.
Tampa, Florida
One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.
Tampa, Florida
This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.
Tampa, Florida
A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.
Tampa, Florida
A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.
Tampa, Florida
These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.
Tampa, Florida
The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.
Chicago, Illinois
This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.
Chicago, Illinois
A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.
Chicago, Illinois
Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.
Chicago, Illinois
Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.