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

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

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

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

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

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

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the coral reefs off Key Largo.

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

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

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

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

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

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

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

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

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

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

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