Weird history28.5633° N, 81.3787° W
Orlando, FL
Small house where Beat writer Jack Kerouac lived when On the Road became a sensation.
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- Weird history29.7251° N, 84.9855° W
Apalachicola, FL
Museum honoring the doctor whose ice-making experiments helped lead to mechanical refrigeration and air conditioning.
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- Weird history26.9488° N, 80.0822° W
Jupiter, FL
1860 lighthouse on an ancient shell mound landscape with maritime and Seminole history.
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- Weird history24.5557° N, 81.7931° W
Key West, FL
Historic above-ground cemetery known for unusual epitaphs, local legends, and elaborate tombs.
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- Weird history24.5485° N, 81.7816° W
Key West, FL
Lush tropical garden growing through the ruins of an unfinished Civil War fort.
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- Weird history24.5520° N, 81.8010° W
Key West, FL
Historic lighthouse and keeper's quarters with maritime history and local ghost lore.
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- Weird history24.5606° N, 81.8075° W
Key West, FL
Museum devoted to Key West's wrecking industry and the dangerous reefs that made fortunes.
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- Weird history30.4384° N, 81.4381° W
Jacksonville, FL
Preserved plantation complex with unusual tabby slave cabins and layered colonial history.
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- Weird history26.4304° N, 81.8158° W
Estero, FL
Preserved settlement of the Koreshan Unity, a utopian sect that taught a hollow-earth cosmology.
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- Weird history28.9651° N, 81.2362° W
Lake Helen, FL
Historic cemetery containing the infamous Devil's Chair and Spiritualist-area lore.
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- Weird history30.5057° N, 84.3162° W
Tallahassee, FL
Large Mississippian ceremonial mound complex just north of Tallahassee.
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- Weird history30.5576° N, 83.9861° W
Monticello, FL
Home to Florida's tallest known Native American ceremonial mound.
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- Weird history26.5629° N, 80.0385° W
Boynton Beach, FL
Iron-hulled merchant barque with painted false gunports that wrecked off South Florida in 1898.
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- Weird history27.5772° N, 82.5845° W
Terra Ceia, FL
Ancient ceremonial mound site and Florida's first protected state archaeological site.
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- Weird history29.6694° N, 81.2127° W
Marineland, FL
Historic 1938 marine attraction originally built as an underwater motion-picture studio.
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- Weird history29.4861° N, 82.1617° W
Cross Creek, FL
Preserved Florida Cracker farmhouse where the author of The Yearling lived and wrote.
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- Weird history27.8287° N, 80.4185° W
Vero Beach, FL
Museum overlooking the site of the 1715 Spanish treasure fleet disaster.
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- Weird history24.5594° N, 81.8062° W
Key West, FL
Treasure and artifacts recovered from famous Spanish shipwrecks including the Atocha.
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- Weird history27.8170° N, 80.4698° W
Sebastian, FL
Treasure-hunting museum with recovered coins, artifacts, and stories from Spanish wrecks.
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- Weird history26.4278° N, 80.1580° W
Delray Beach, FL
Japanese museum and gardens rooted in a little-known early-1900s farming colony.
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- Weird history26.4461° N, 81.9279° W
Fort Myers Beach, FL
Museum and archaeological site built directly atop a nearly 2,000-year-old Calusa shell mound.
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- Weird history26.4317° N, 81.9225° W
Estero, FL
Boat-access shell-mound island believed to have been the capital of the Calusa.
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- Weird history30.2821° N, 84.1487° W
Tallahassee, FL
Civil War battlefield where the St. Marks River disappears underground before reemerging.
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- Weird history25.7083° N, 80.0952° W
Key Biscayne, FL
Underwater memorial cemetery designed like a sunken city.
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