A time capsule of Floridian history fights to survive on the banks of Chokoloskee Bay.

A lone gunner's station is all that remains of a replica Spanish Fort in Florida.

A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.

This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

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

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

Get up close with some alligators at this roadside farm attraction.

This historic crypt was said to have been designed and built by the very person who is buried inside of it.

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

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

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

The sign that drew attention to a young boy's cucumber stand is now the name of his fruit superstore.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

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

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

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

Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

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

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

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