You’ll feel like you’ve gone through the looking glass at this contemporary art museum filled with glass sculptures of every size, shape, and color.

Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

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

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

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

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

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

A building so large that it has its own weather.

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

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

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

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

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

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

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

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

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

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.