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Lenses and antique bottles

Carrabelle, Florida

Carrabelle Bottle House

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

Cavern.

Marianna, Florida

Florida Caverns State Park

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

Pensacola Futuro House

Pensacola Beach, Florida

Pensacola Futuro House

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

Fort Pickens

Pensacola Beach, Florida

Fort Pickens

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

Fort De Soto Park is the largest in Pinellas County, spanning over 1,000 acres with five connected islands.

Tierra Verde, Florida

Fort De Soto Park

Fascinating military history, awe-inspiring wildlife encounters, and endless outdoor adventures draw people to this sprawling park.

Mermaid Kiyomi at Weeki Wachee Springs State Park.

Weeki Wachee, Florida

Weeki Wachee: ‘City of Live Mermaids’

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins Historic State Park

Homosassa, Florida

Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins Historic State Park

Ruins of an old sugar mill sitting quietly next to a park in rural Florida.

A screenshot from the park's Manatee Cam. (Press photo)

Homosassa, Florida

Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park

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

The Citrus Tower looks over what was once orange groves.

Clermont, Florida

The Citrus Tower

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

Presidents Hall of Fame

Clermont, Florida

Presidents Hall of Fame

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

Spook Hill

Lake Wales, Florida

Spook Hill

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

World's Largest Entertainment McDonald's

Orlando, Florida

World's Largest Entertainment McDonald's

Opened in 1976, this monster-sized version of the fast-food franchise is sometimes called the Epic McD.

‘Fantasy Swan’

Orlando, Florida

‘Fantasy Swan’

A different kind of swan princess.

Rock Springs Run winds through a lush segment of semi-tropical forest.

Apopka, Florida

Rock Springs

Approximately 65,000 gallons of crystal clear water pour out of this headspring every minute.

Fort Caroline National Memorial

Jacksonville, Florida

Fort Caroline National Memorial

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

Construction of Fort Clinch began in 1847, but by the outbreak of hostilities at the start of the Civil War, only about two-thirds of the fort had been completed.

Fernandina Beach, Florida

Fort Clinch

Used as a military post in three different engagements, this fort has remained incomplete and unfired upon for nearly 200 years.

An ivy covered shrine in the woods

St. Augustine, Florida

National Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche

This shrine commemorates the site of the first known Catholic mass in the United States.

Castillo de San Marcos from above.

St. Augustine, Florida

Castillo de San Marcos

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

Fort Matanzas

St. Augustine, Florida

Fort Matanzas National Monument

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

Exterior view of the Vehicle Assembly Building.

Titusville, Florida

NASA Vehicle Assembly Building

A building so large that it has its own weather.

The house sits on a thin sandbar off the Florida coast.

Stuart, Florida

Gilbert’s Bar House of Refuge

In a time before lifeguards, this house was a sanctuary for the shipwrecked.

Several crescent moons in limestone.

Homestead, Florida

Ed Leedskalnin's Coral Castle

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

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