Weird history29.0249° N, 81.0566° W
New Smyrna Beach, FL
Atmospheric coquina ruins of a 19th-century sugar mill.
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- Weird history27.9583° N, 82.4598° W
Tampa, FL
Tampa's oldest public cemetery with pioneer graves and layers of local lore.
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- Weird history28.8367° N, 82.3305° W
Inverness, FL
Historic courthouse museum tied to Citrus County history and Elvis Presley's filming of Follow That Dream.
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- Weird history29.0257° N, 80.9233° W
New Smyrna Beach, FL
Mysterious coquina foundation traditionally called the 'Old Fort,' with disputed original purpose.
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- Weird history29.9017° N, 81.3158° W
St. Augustine, FL
1908 jail preserved with cells, sheriff's quarters, and gallows-era interpretation.
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- Weird history24.5555° N, 81.8031° W
Key West, FL
One of Key West's oldest surviving houses, filled with island history and period artifacts.
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- Weird history29.9016° N, 81.3159° W
St. Augustine, FL
Living-history store crowded with turn-of-the-century gadgets, patent medicines, and strange household inventions.
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- Weird history29.8987° N, 81.3141° W
St. Augustine, FL
Tiny cedar-and-cypress schoolhouse promoted as one of the country's oldest surviving wooden school buildings.
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- Weird history30.2086° N, 82.4087° W
Olustee, FL
Preserved battlefield landscape from Florida's largest Civil War battle.
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- Weird history30.6703° N, 81.4625° W
Fernandina Beach, FL
Historic port-town saloon with ornate interiors and more than a century of Amelia Island lore.
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- Weird history30.3463° N, 87.3080° W
Pensacola, FL
1859 lighthouse on Naval Air Station Pensacola with keeper history, maritime exhibits, and a dramatic tower climb.
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- Weird history28.0086° N, 82.6782° W
Safety Harbor, FL
Large Tocobaga-era shell temple mound overlooking Old Tampa Bay.
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- Weird history28.3597° N, 82.1872° W
Dade City, FL
Open-air pioneer village with historic buildings, machinery, and Florida Cracker culture.
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- Weird history28.2951° N, 81.4558° W
Kissimmee, FL
Open-air village of relocated pioneer buildings on historic Shingle Creek.
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- Weird history29.0808° N, 80.9281° W
Ponce Inlet, FL
Florida's tallest lighthouse and one of the tallest masonry lighthouses in the United States.
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- Weird history29.6108° N, 81.2493° W
Palm Coast, FL
Historic hunting lodge tied to an actual Russian princess and surrounded by secluded Old Florida landscape.
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- Weird history29.1026° N, 82.4377° W
Dunnellon, FL
Former roadside attraction with artificial waterfalls, old zoo remnants, and a huge spring system.
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- Weird history26.6608° N, 82.1508° W
Pineland, FL
Public trail through the Pineland archaeological site, including huge Calusa shell mounds, canals, and an ancient village landscape.
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- Weird history27.4689° N, 82.7022° W
Bradenton Beach, FL
Shallow wreck of a 1904 steel tanker-barge that went down carrying molasses in 1940.
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- Weird history30.3852° N, 81.5003° W
Jacksonville, FL
Monument marking the 1562 French claim to Florida near Fort Caroline.
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- Weird history30.1536° N, 84.2066° W
St. Marks, FL
Ruins and reconstructed remains of a strategic fort site used by multiple empires and armies.
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- Weird history24.8556° N, 80.7636° W
Islamorada, FL
Submerged 1733 Spanish treasure-fleet wreck preserved as an underwater archaeological park.
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- Weird history29.2057° N, 83.0644° W
Cedar Key, FL
Massive ancient shell-mound complex in Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge.
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- Weird history29.2163° N, 82.0559° W
Silver Springs, FL
Historic glass-bottom boats, submerged archaeology, film history, and famous rhesus monkeys nearby.
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