An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

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

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

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

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

Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

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

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

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

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.