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

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

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

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

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

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

The culprit who accidentally lit this 3,500-year-old tree on fire stated "I can't believe I burned down a tree older than Jesus."

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

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

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

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

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

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

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

North Central Florida's largest flea market and a weekend roadtripper's dream.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.