Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Florida

While in Florida, you might enjoy a visit to:

A reworked Johnny Appleseed statue that now carries a big doughnut and cup of coffee.
~15 miles from Tallahassee.

Bronze statue of blind musician Ray Charles -- Greenville was his hometown.
~38 miles from Tallahassee.

C.W. Lapham was terrified of fire and suspicious of 90 degree angles, so he built his mansion with 45 exterior doors and 19 asymmetrical rooms. Tour guides starting in the 1980s claimed that there were no right angles in the house (but there are).
~33 miles from Tallahassee.

John Gorrie invented an air-refrigeration machine in the 1850s to cool hospital patients -- and made living in Florida possible.
~65 miles from Tallahassee.

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