Roadside oddities30.4666° N, 86.5612° W
Eglin AFB, FL
Specialized museum devoted to U.S. Air Force weapons, aircraft, missiles, and armament technology.
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Roadside oddities in Florida
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Suggest a stopGiant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
- Roadside oddities29.6389° N, 82.3822° W
Gainesville, FL
Small lakeside chapel with dramatic gothic-like windows and an unusually secluded atmosphere.
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- Seasonal or ticketed
- Roadside oddities24.9305° N, 80.6290° W
Islamorada, FL
Massive roadside spiny-lobster sculpture, one of the Keys' most recognizable oddities.
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- Roadside, no entry
- Roadside oddities30.3521° N, 82.6921° W
White Springs, FL
Florida's largest whitewater rapids at high water.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities30.4817° N, 81.4442° W
Jacksonville, FL
Eroding shoreline scattered with giant sun-bleached skeletons of fallen trees.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities28.9472° N, 81.3396° W
Orange City, FL
Major winter manatee refuge centered on a powerful spring and historic Thursby House.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities27.9359° N, 81.5753° W
Lake Wales, FL
Art Deco singing tower and carillon standing atop one of peninsular Florida's highest points.
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- Roadside, no entry
- Roadside oddities28.5425° N, 82.4315° W
Brooksville, FL
Karst landscape with small caves and sinkholes in Hernando County.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities29.6358° N, 82.3708° W
Gainesville, FL
Living rainforest exhibit with hundreds of free-flying butterflies and tropical birds.
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- Seasonal or ticketed
- Roadside oddities25.1231° N, 80.2970° W
Key Largo, FL
Submerged bronze statue of Christ standing beneath the waters of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park.
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- Seasonal or ticketed
- Roadside oddities29.6373° N, 82.3709° W
Gainesville, FL
Sculptural garden mixing Asian art, water features, and Florida landscape beside the Harn Museum.
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- Roadside, no entry
- Roadside oddities29.8966° N, 81.3136° W
St. Augustine, FL
Huge old live oak anchoring the courtyard of the Colonial Quarter.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities29.4073° N, 82.4768° W
Williston, FL
Underground prehistoric spring inside a collapsed limestone cavern.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities29.7070° N, 82.3955° W
Gainesville, FL
A huge bowl-shaped sinkhole exposing more than 100 feet of Florida geology.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities28.0281° N, 82.1922° W
Plant City, FL
Twenty-two-acre roadside jungle filled with hundreds of life-size dinosaur models.
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- Roadside, no entry
- Roadside oddities28.4119° N, 80.6089° W
Cape Canaveral, FL
Seven-story sail-shaped tower overlooking active launch complexes and the port.
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- Roadside, no entry
- Roadside oddities30.7293° N, 85.5288° W
Chipley, FL
Florida's tallest waterfall drops into a deep cylindrical sinkhole.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities29.5873° N, 82.9358° W
Fanning Springs, FL
Historic roadside spring and aquifer window along the Suwannee River.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities28.1676° N, 81.8070° W
Polk City, FL
Eccentric aviation collection of historic aircraft presented by pilot and collector Kermit Weeks.
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- Seasonal or ticketed
- Roadside oddities30.8070° N, 85.2322° W
Marianna, FL
Florida's only state park with public guided tours through large dry limestone caves.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities28.5639° N, 81.7431° W
Clermont, FL
1956 observation tower surviving from the era when citrus groves and roadside attractions defined Central Florida tourism.
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- Roadside, no entry
- Roadside oddities28.3553° N, 81.4028° W
Orlando, FL
Classic Old Florida attraction entered through a giant alligator mouth.
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- Roadside, no entry
- Roadside oddities28.3312° N, 81.5850° W
Kissimmee, FL
Souvenir-store facade dominated by a huge sculpted mermaid and fake lighthouse.
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- Seasonal or ticketed
- Roadside oddities25.1241° N, 80.4057° W
Key Largo, FL
America's first undersea park, including reefs, wrecks, and underwater statues.
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- Open to visitors