Weird history30.3575° N, 87.3022° W
Pensacola, FL
Rare inland redoubt built to protect Pensacola's naval yard from land attack.
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- Weird history25.0868° N, 80.4449° W
Key Largo, FL
Restored boat used in the 1951 film The African Queen, now operating from Key Largo.
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- Weird history25.9377° N, 80.1455° W
North Miami Beach, FL
12th-century Spanish monastery dismantled stone by stone and rebuilt in Florida.
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- Weird history28.5234° N, 80.6821° W
Merritt Island, FL
Black granite memorial inscribed with astronauts who died in the line of duty.
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- Weird history29.1877° N, 81.4204° W
Barberville, FL
Open-air collection of relocated historic Florida buildings and folk-life artifacts.
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- Weird history26.1375° N, 80.1045° W
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Eccentric artist estate filled with murals, shells, monkeys in its history, and tropical gardens.
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- Weird history30.6735° N, 81.4503° W
Fernandina Beach, FL
Moss-draped historic cemetery with burials stretching back into Florida's Spanish colonial era.
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- Weird history29.4339° N, 81.1394° W
Flagler Beach, FL
Moss-covered coquina sugar-mill ruins burned during the Second Seminole War.
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- Weird history29.8298° N, 84.6939° W
Carrabelle, FL
Museum preserving the enormous amphibious-training camp that prepared roughly a quarter-million troops during World War II.
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- Weird history30.3164° N, 81.8196° W
Jacksonville, FL
Preserved Civil War earthworks from the largest Confederate encampment in Florida.
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- Weird history25.6663° N, 80.1583° W
Key Biscayne, FL
Historic lighthouse attacked during the Second Seminole War and rebuilt multiple times.
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- Weird history29.8978° N, 81.3115° W
St. Augustine, FL
Massive coquina fortress with centuries of warfare, imprisonment, and ghost lore.
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- Weird history28.9308° N, 80.8328° W
New Smyrna Beach, FL
Remote archaeological shell midden reached by trail in Canaveral National Seashore.
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- Weird history29.1451° N, 83.0459° W
Cedar Key, FL
Old Florida museum preserving island history and naturalist John Muir's Cedar Key connection.
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- Weird history29.6077° N, 82.9708° W
Old Town, FL
Remarkably intact Suwannee River sternwheel steamboat abandoned as railroads ended the river-steamer era.
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- Weird history25.5006° N, 80.4440° W
Homestead, FL
Edward Leedskalnin's one-man megalithic limestone complex, long surrounded by engineering and supernatural folklore.
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- Weird history25.7515° N, 80.2717° W
Coral Gables, FL
Historic home of Coral Gables founder George Merrick, tied to the city's planned Mediterranean fantasy.
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- Weird history24.7268° N, 81.0525° W
Marathon, FL
Natural-history site with preserved Keys buildings, trails, and a wild-bird center.
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- Weird history29.8269° N, 84.7016° W
Carrabelle, FL
Restored 1895 skeletal lighthouse with a keeper's museum and original Fresnel lens.
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- Weird history28.6038° N, 82.3605° W
Brooksville, FL
Remnants of the former railroad and phosphate community of Croom survive within the Withlacoochee State Forest landscape.
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- Weird history28.8962° N, 82.6284° W
Crystal River, FL
Ancient ceremonial complex with temple mounds, burial mounds, middens, and a museum.
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- Weird history28.6527° N, 82.1289° W
Bushnell, FL
Site of the 1835 battle that ignited the Second Seminole War.
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- Weird history29.1378° N, 81.3666° W
De Leon Springs, FL
Ancient canoes, sugar-mill history, Fountain of Youth branding, and the former water-skiing elephant attraction.
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- Weird history27.5233° N, 82.6439° W
Bradenton, FL
Memorial landscape tied to Hernando de Soto's violent 1539 expedition into the Southeast.
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