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Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

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

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

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

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

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

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

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

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

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.