Weird history24.6285° N, 82.8732° W
Key West, FL
Remote islands, shipwreck history, legends of treasure, and the giant Fort Jefferson.
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Weird history in Florida
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- Weird history29.1339° N, 81.0137° W
Port Orange, FL
Botanical gardens surrounding plantation sugar-mill ruins and surviving old roadside-attraction dinosaur statues.
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- Weird history30.2355° N, 84.3017° W
Wakulla Springs, FL
Massive spring, mastodon finds, old Florida lodge, and filming history for classic creature movies.
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- Weird history28.7991° N, 82.5894° W
Homosassa, FL
Old Florida attraction with an underwater observatory and the state's long-resident hippo, Lu.
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- Weird history30.3475° N, 87.2976° W
Pensacola, FL
Hilltop fortification incorporating Spanish, British, and American military layers.
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- Weird history30.3865° N, 81.4985° W
Jacksonville, FL
Memorial to the doomed 1564 French colonial settlement on the St. Johns River.
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- Weird history30.7007° N, 81.4578° W
Fernandina Beach, FL
Large 19th-century brick fort with intact rooms, tunnels, and living-history interpretation.
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- Weird history27.6160° N, 82.7364° W
Tierra Verde, FL
Concrete coastal batteries and military ruins within Fort De Soto Park.
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- Weird history27.6158° N, 82.7369° W
Tierra Verde, FL
Coastal fort ruins with batteries, military relics, and eerie empty casemates.
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- Weird history24.6285° N, 82.8732° W
Key West, FL
Enormous remote brick fortress on Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park.
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- Weird history29.7148° N, 81.2382° W
St. Augustine, FL
1742 coquina watchtower reached by boat across the Matanzas River.
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- Weird history29.9155° N, 81.3210° W
St. Augustine, FL
Living-history site interpreting Timucua, Spanish-colonial, and pioneer Florida.
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- Weird history29.9478° N, 81.3248° W
St. Augustine, FL
Site of the first legally sanctioned free African settlement in what became the United States.
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- Weird history30.3266° N, 87.2916° W
Pensacola Beach, FL
Huge brick Gulf fortress where Apache leader Geronimo was imprisoned.
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- Weird history24.5474° N, 81.8107° W
Key West, FL
Seaside Civil War fort with one of the largest collections of Civil War-era seacoast cannon.
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- Weird history29.0634° N, 81.0389° W
Port Orange, FL
Rustic retreat built by the Gamble family, including the distinctive Snow White Cottage.
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- Weird history27.1988° N, 80.1631° W
Stuart, FL
Iron-hulled vessel wrecked in 1904 just offshore from the historic House of Refuge.
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- Weird history28.5226° N, 81.3510° W
Orlando, FL
Historic cemetery with notable local burials and occasional guided moonlight walks.
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- Weird history25.7271° N, 80.1346° W
Key Biscayne, FL
German-built racing yacht later used as a Miami floating saloon before wrecking off Key Biscayne around 1930.
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- Weird history27.9472° N, 82.4653° W
Tampa, FL
Former Gilded Age hotel with Moorish minarets, period rooms, and eccentric Victorian collections.
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- Weird history26.7148° N, 80.0368° W
Palm Beach, FL
Gilded Age mansion built by the railroad magnate who transformed Florida's east coast.
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- Weird history27.1840° N, 80.1606° W
Stuart, FL
Last surviving shipwreck-rescue station of its kind on Florida's Atlantic coast.
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- Weird history29.8996° N, 81.3162° W
St. Augustine, FL
Historic Protestant cemetery near the old city gate with yellow-fever-era burials.
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- Weird history29.9844° N, 82.7615° W
Fort White, FL
Crystal springs with submerged archaeology and remains of a Spanish mission and early phosphate mining.
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