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Creatures people keep reporting and nobody has caught.
Ochopee, FL
An Everglades stop devoted to Florida's Skunk Ape, the swamp-dwelling cryptid often called the Southeast's Bigfoot. Based at Trail Lakes Campground, it collects sighting reports, lore and research alongside a well-stocked gift counter.
Stories a place tells about itself, passed down and still repeated.
Cassadaga, FL
Cemetery bench surrounded by local legends claiming the Devil visits those who sit there at midnight.
St. Augustine, FL
Archaeological attraction intertwined with the enduring Ponce de León Fountain of Youth legend.
Ponce de Leon, FL
Clear spring named for the enduring Fountain of Youth legend.
Lake Wales, FL
Stop on Spook Hill, off US 27, put the car in neutral, and it appears to roll uphill. The slope is an illusion — the surrounding land hides the true horizon, so a gentle descent reads as a climb — which has never once stopped anyone trying it with a bottle of water. A public road, so pull over sensibly and watch for traffic.
White Springs, FL
Massive carillon tower, folk-culture exhibits, and Old Florida interpretation centered on 'Old Folks at Home.'
Carrabelle, FL
Huge swampy forest named for the local legend of Cebe Tate's disastrous trek through the wilderness.
Hotels, theatres, prisons and back roads with a reputation.
Key West, FL
Historic home associated with old-Key-West ghost stories and 19th-century maritime wealth.
Key West, FL
Former morgue and icehouse built around a hanging tree, packed with ghost stories and old graves.
Cassadaga, FL
Historic community founded by Spiritualists, still known for mediums, séances, and metaphysical practice.
Key West, FL
Civil War-era fort museum best known as the home of Robert the Doll.
Brooksville, FL
Victorian house museum with a strong reputation for hauntings and paranormal investigations.
Key West, FL
Infamous supposedly cursed doll displayed inside Fort East Martello.
Real events too strange to have made the textbook.
Pensacola, FL
Rare inland redoubt built to protect Pensacola's naval yard from land attack.
Key Largo, FL
Restored boat used in the 1951 film The African Queen, now operating from Key Largo.
North Miami Beach, FL
12th-century Spanish monastery dismantled stone by stone and rebuilt in Florida.
Merritt Island, FL
Black granite memorial inscribed with astronauts who died in the line of duty.
Barberville, FL
Open-air collection of relocated historic Florida buildings and folk-life artifacts.
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Eccentric artist estate filled with murals, shells, monkeys in its history, and tropical gardens.
Small, specific collections run by people who care far too much.
Fernandina Beach, FL
Museum in a former jail covering pirates, smugglers, colonial powers, and the island's unusual succession of flags.
Titusville, FL
Spaceflight artifacts and monuments dedicated to workers behind America's launch program.
Cedar Key, FL
Island museum covering shipwrecks, railroads, pencil manufacturing, hurricanes, and early settlement.
Ocala, FL
Major collection preserving drag-racing history, unusual race cars, engines, and speed-culture artifacts.
St. Petersburg, FL
Focused museum preserving Black history in St. Petersburg's historic Deuces neighborhood.
Stuart, FL
Museum with a mechanical multi-level robotic vehicle storage system and eclectic local collections.
Giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
Eglin AFB, FL
Specialized museum devoted to U.S. Air Force weapons, aircraft, missiles, and armament technology.
Gainesville, FL
Small lakeside chapel with dramatic gothic-like windows and an unusually secluded atmosphere.
Islamorada, FL
Massive roadside spiny-lobster sculpture, one of the Keys' most recognizable oddities.
White Springs, FL
Florida's largest whitewater rapids at high water.
Jacksonville, FL
Eroding shoreline scattered with giant sun-bleached skeletons of fallen trees.
Orange City, FL
Major winter manatee refuge centered on a powerful spring and historic Thursby House.
