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This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

Florida’s largest fish hatchery features aquariums, fishing ponds, and local taxidermy.

World's largest magnetic research facility.

Decorative shell walls built in the 1940s sit atop an ancient midden created by the Calusa Native Americans.

This small museum concentrates on the juicy history of orange production in Florida.

This concrete sculpture features a woman opening her heart to showcase a beautiful fern.

Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

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

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

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