During segregation, this Orlando hotel hosted performers like Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Now it's a museum dedicated to preserving local Black history.

Deep in the Ocala National Forest, a lonesome 19th-century grave.

A different kind of swan princess.

Dedicated to the "World's Luckiest Fishing Village."

This post-war motel embodies a little-known, Miami-born architectural style.

These ruins are all that remain of what a Spanish barrack that likely housed a quarry overseer, masons, and stone cutters involved in the construction of the Castillo de San Marco.

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

This general store is stocked with memorabilia from the 1930s onward—almost none of it for sale.

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.

This mass grave for victims of a massive hurricane remained hidden until 1991.

A seemingly inexplicable memorial honors a beloved Tampa fruit-seller.

An unassuming corner inside downtown Orlando's library offers a whole new world of the park and its history.

Dedicated to the victims of one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the United States in recorded history.

This small museum is dedicated to the history of Havana and Florida's once-booming tobacco industry.

Florida’s first home built with eco-friendly hempcrete.

No one knows how or why this painting appeared to produce crystallized tears.

Pay homage to a mysterious feline artifact outside of this Florida museum.

This facility, now a museum, once housed and trained U.S. Army Air Force pilots who flew during the Allied invasion of Normandy.

A local road runs around a memorial to a teenager who died in 1860.

An aviation relic that made coast-to-coast travel possible.

Of course the guy with the first patent for an ice machine lived in Florida.

An unusual college football tradition involves burying pieces of sod from competitors' turf, replete with tiny coffins and headstones.

This 1920s railway depot is now home to two unique museums complete with a miniature train ride.

These constructed wetlands naturally filter millions of gallons of treated wastewater every day.