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

With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

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

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The haunting remains of a failed housing development can still be found behind the big box stores that were to anchor them.

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

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

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 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

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

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.