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This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

How Quincy, Florida became the richest town per capita due to one man's shrewd business acumen and taste for fizzy drinks.

It's believed Elvis Presley was inspired to write his breakthrough track after staying here.

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

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

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

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

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

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

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

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

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

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

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

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

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

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."

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