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

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

What started as three small gnomes at the base of a tree has grown into a full-blown gnome home.

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

The second oldest jail in Florida gives insight into the realities of the criminal justice system at the turn of the 20th century.

How did a 154-foot-long piece of spacecraft wind up abandoned along the side of a Florida road?

Part of a highway network meant to connect Miami to Montreal, this 10-mile stretch of road made from red bricks is still around 100 years later.

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

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

These ruins are all that remain of what a Spanish barrack that likely housed a quarry overseer, masons, and stone cutters involved in the construction of the Castillo de San Marco.

Built to replace a house destroyed by a hurricane, this home is made entirely of shipping containers.

The graves in Florida's oldest Black cemeteries are marked with shells, stones, and mementos of the deceased.

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

An oversized bluebird statue returns to its rightful place on Vilano Beach pier.

This shrine commemorates the site of the first known Catholic mass in the United States.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.