New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Cruger-dePeyster Sugar Mill Ruins
Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.
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New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.
Maitland, Florida
This historical art colony is adorned with thousands of hand-carved concrete sculptures in the Mayan Revival style.
Clermont, Florida
An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.
Weeki Wachee, Florida
Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.
Port Orange, Florida
Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.
Sanford, Florida
This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.
Lamont, Florida
View rare birds and interact with lemurs at this nonprofit run entirely by volunteers.
Mount Dora, Florida
A small strip of artistic displays is tucked away in a flea market.
Greenville, Florida
Georgia may have been on his mind, but this memorial in Florida shows that Greenville was really Ray Charles's childhood home.
Saint Simons Island, Georgia
The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.
Jekyll Island, Georgia
Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.
De Leon Springs, Florida
Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.
Jekyll Island, Georgia
Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.
Chiefland, Florida
A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.
Mayo, Florida
Florida's first suspension bridge.
Flagler Beach, Florida
The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.
Ormond Beach, Florida
The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.
Evinston, Florida
This general store is stocked with memorabilia from the 1930s onward—almost none of it for sale.
Gainesville, Florida
Though illegal, city officials have made an exception for this work of art.
St. Marys, Georgia
Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.
Gainesville, Florida
The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.
Gainesville, Florida
This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.
Gainesville, Florida
This Buddhist temple is home to a number of towering statues spread over a peaceful wooded park.
St. Marys, Georgia
Interactive modern and vintage submarine equipment, World War II relics, and submarine attire.