The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

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

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

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

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

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

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

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

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

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

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

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

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

VW heaven in the backwoods of Dade City, now gone.

Built in just a little over a week this preserved bunker was created to protect our most attractive POTUS while he was on vacation.

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

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