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See-Saw Cypress Gardens: Down Again
Winter Haven - Cypress Gardens, Florida’s first theme park, has once again found itself out in the weeds. An iconic home of water ski shows and Southern Belles in uncomfortably warm dresses, the park operated steadily for almost 70 years. Full story
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Featured Attractions
Burt Reynolds and Friends Museum
Jupiter, Florida
Trace the generations-spanning career of the Hollywood star in his very own museum.
Big Daddy Don Garlits Museum Of Drag Racing
Ocala, Florida
A car museum for people who usually don't like car museums, because, well, dragsters aren't really cars.
United States Astronaut Hall of Fame
Titusville, Florida
Salute America's space heroes, experience space sickness, snort Moon dust.
Jungle Island
Miami, Florida
There's still a tiny bit of classic performing animal show here, behind all the newer distractions.
Skunk Ape Research Headquarters
Ochopee, Florida
A mysterious and smelly biped stalks the Florida Everglades.
Coral Castle
Homestead, Florida
Hand carved monument to unrequited love, built by Edward Leedskalnin for his "Sweet Sixteen."
Daytona USA
Daytona Beach, Florida
Logo-carpeted "interactive attraction" may be the noisiest museum on earth.
Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Apalachicola: Gorrie Ice Museum [tips]
- Alligator Alley: Miccousukee Indian Village
- Bithlo: Figure 8 Schoolbus Races [tips]
- Bonita Springs: Everglades Wonder Gardens
- Cape Coral: Iwo Jima Statue Replica [tips]
- Cape Coral: Big John [tips]
- Captiva Island: Bubble Room [tips]
- Carabelle: World's Smallest Police Station [tips]
- Cassadaga: Town of Spiritualists
- Christmas: Largest Gator
- Clermont: Florida Citrus Tower
- Clermont: Hall of Presidents [tips]
- Daytona Beach: Brownie the Town Dog
- Daytona Beach: Daytona USA
- Daytona Beach: Wright Bros. Plane Replica
- Dunnellon: Phosphate Marker
- Estero: Hollow Earth Utopia [tips]
- Ft. Myers: Giant Beethoven Head [tips]
- Ft. Walton Beach: Maytag Repairman [tips]
- Ft. Walton Beach: Reptile House [tips]
- Gibsonton: Circus Freak Wintering Town [tips]
- Grassy Key: Flipper's Grave
- Hillsboro Beach: Barefoot Mailman Statue
- Homestead: Coral Castle
- Islamorada: Theater of the Sea
- Islamorada: Wrong-way Hurricane Monument [tips]
- Jupiter: Burt Reynolds and Friends Museum
- Key West: Southernmost Point in the US
- Key Largo: Christ of the Deep
- Key Largo: Jules' Undersea Lodge [tips]
- Kissimmee: Gatorland
- Kissimmee: Medieval Times
- Kissimmee: Monument of States
- Kissimmee: Giant Orange
- Kissimmee: Second Largest Gator
- Lake Wales: Spook Hill
- Lloyd: Johnny Donutseed [tips]
- Lumberton: Forgotten Citrus Center Monument
- Melbourne: Liberty Bell Memorial Museum [tips]
- Miami: Jackie Gleason Mausoleum
- Miami: Monkey Jungle
- Miami: Jungle Island
- Ocala: Big Daddy Don Garlits Museum Of Drag Racing
- Ochopee: Skunk Ape Research Headquarters
- Ochopee: Smallest Post Office in the Uniter States
- Ona: Solomon's Castle
- Orlando: Graceland replica [tips]
- Orlando: Holyland Experience
- Orlando: Titanic: The Experience
- Palmdale: Gatorama Wildlife Park
- Panama City Beach: Goofy Golf
- Pensacola: Museum of Oddities [tips]
- Pensacola: Naval Air Museum
- Pensacola: 1/2 scale Vietnam War Memorial [tips]
- Plant City: Dinosaur World [tips]
- Port Orange: Bongoland
- Punta Gorda: "First White Man to Die in America"
- Sarasota: Sarasota Jungle Gardens [tips]
- Silver Springs: Silver Springs [tips]
- St. Augustine: Fountain of Youth
- St. Augustine: House Inside a Redwood Log
- St. Augustine: The Old Jail
- St. Augustine: St. Augustine Alligator Farm
- St. Petersburg: Sunken Gardens [tips-news]
- Sugarloaf Key: Bat Tower [tips]
- Tarpon Springs: Spongeorama
- Titusville: American Police Hall of Fame and Museum
- Titusville: Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
- Titusville: Shuttle Launch Experience
- Titusville: US Astronaut Hall of Fame
- Wakulla Springs: Pole-Vaulting Fish [tips]
- Wakulla Springs: Old Joe the Alligator
- Wausau: Possum Capital of the US [tips]
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Weeki Wachee: City of Mermaids
- Winter Haven: Cypress Gardens
- Winter Park: Walk of Fame [tips]
