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This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

Every Sunday for the last 30 years, this Buddhist temple has hosted a market with food and Thai goods.

This sculpture is one of many stunning features along Tampa’s Riverwalk.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

A trek through the solar system here on earth.

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

The mounds on this coastal archaeological site reveal the history of the land’s first inhabitants.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

The ruins of a resort and casino sit on the banks of this blue hole spring that pumps 70,000 gallons of warm, clear water every minute.

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

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

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.

Long before Europeans arrived, Native Americans built an artificial island out of shells that has withstood a millennia of hurricanes.

Pay homage to a mysterious feline artifact outside of this Florida museum.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.