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Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

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

This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

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

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

Public works and national defense project meant to carve a canal all the way across the state of Florida.

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