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Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.

Ancient church constructed with a special wood that preserves prints from the past.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

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

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

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

Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

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

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

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.

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