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These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.

You’ll feel like you’ve gone through the looking glass at this contemporary art museum filled with glass sculptures of every size, shape, and color.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

Decorative shell walls built in the 1940s sit atop an ancient midden created by the Calusa Native Americans.

This whimsical outsider art wall holds tiny treasures donated by the local community.

A time capsule of Floridian history fights to survive on the banks of Chokoloskee Bay.

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

This small island was the first National Wildlife Refuge ever created in the United States.

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

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

Working compound meant to allow visitors to reclaim the values and traditions of the past.

This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

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

Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

The ruins of a once massive plantation are now a private residence hidden in the Florida wilderness.

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.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.