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The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

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

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

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

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

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

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

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

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

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

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

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.

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

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.

In memory of the 110 victims of ValuJet Flight 592 that crashed in the Everglades.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.