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Merritt Island, Florida
Also known as Georgiana Cemetery, this Brevard County burial ground dates to the 18th century, making it one of the oldest in the area, and…
Tampa, Florida
Built in 1917 after fire destroyed an earlier building on the site, the Cuban Club was the social heart of Ybor City's Cuban immigrant…
Miami Springs, Florida
At the Curtiss Mansion, staff and visitors have long reported lights switching on and off with no explanation, along with the sound and…
Daytona, Florida
Two ghosts are said to haunt the Daytona Playhouse, a man and a woman whose names are unknown. According to the legend, the man died…
Miami, Florida
The Deering Estate is a 450-acre Miami-Dade County Heritage Park on Biscayne Bay, centered on the Stone House built for industrialist…
Port St. Lucie, Florida
Gerard Schaefer, a Martin County sheriff's deputy later linked to dozens of killings across the region, murdered two teenage girls, Susan…
St. Petersburg, Florida
Real estate developer Thomas Rowe opened the Don CeSar, known as the Pink Palace, on January 16, 1928, modeling its lobby fountain on one…
Mount Dora, Florida
The Donnelly House in Mount Dora was built in 1893 for John Donnelly, the town's first mayor, and his wife Annie, and was listed on the…
Titusville, Florida
Built in 1905 as a saloon and hotel, this building was refurbished within the decade as the Magnolia Hotel and Theater, screening silent…
Maitland, Florida
Tina Tiedtke and her family founded this nonprofit arthouse cinema in 1985; it now hosts the Florida Film Festival. Its odd, decades-old…
Key West, Florida
Built in 1851 by wealthy shipwreck salvager Asa Tift, this Spanish Colonial house at 907 Whitehead Street fell into disrepair and…
Defuniak Springs, Florida
Founded May 27, 1827, when the Reverend Murdoch Murphy of the Alabama Synod organized a congregation of fifteen families here, Euchee…
Tampa, Florida
Built in 1928 as the Park Theatre, this 1,000-seat venue was taken over by the University of Tampa in 1962 and renamed the Falk Theatre…
Polk, Florida
Aerobatics competitor and aircraft designer Kermit Weeks built his original Weeks Air Museum collection in Miami starting in 1981, only for…
Fort Myers, Florida
Completed August 17, 1914, this neoclassical granite building on the corner of 1st and Hendry streets was listed on the National Register…
St. Augustine, Florida
Standard Oil magnate Henry Flagler opened the Hotel Ponce de Leon, his first Gilded Age resort and architects Carrere and Hastings' first…
Boca Raton, Florida
Night-shift staff at Florida Atlantic University's Humanities Building have reported seeing a woman crying at the top of the amphitheater…
Lakeland, Florida
Florida Southern College's campus holds the largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world, beginning with…
St. Petersburg, Florida
The Sunshine Skyway's ghost stories include motorists who say they have picked up a young woman standing alone on the bridge around…
Fernandina, Florida
Construction on Fort Clinch began in 1847, named for General Duncan Lamont Clinch of Seminole War fame, and was only about two-thirds…
St. Petersburg, Florida
Built between 1898 and 1906 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and named for Hernando de Soto, this coastal fortification never saw combat…
Key West, Florida
Built in 1862 as a Civil War-era coastal fort and listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1972, Fort East Martello is now…
Pensacola, Florida
At Fort Pickens, visitors and rangers today describe a persistent sense of being watched in certain rooms of the fort. Completed in 1834 to…
Key West, Florida
Construction on this Civil War-era fort began in 1845 as part of a coastal defense network, slowed for years by yellow fever epidemics and…