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The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

For 32 years the famous Ringling Bros circus troupe spent winters in this sunny spot in Florida.

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

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.

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

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

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

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

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

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

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

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

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.

The ruins of a once massive plantation are now a private residence hidden in the Florida wilderness.

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.