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Apalachicola: Museum to the Man who Invented Air Conditioning
Apollo Beach: Power Station Manatees
Apopka: Splendid China Miniatures
Bithlo: School Bus Figure 8 Races
Bonita Springs: Derelict Ship Restaurant (Closed)
Bradenton: Braden Castle Ruins
Bradenton: Linger Lodge - Taxidermy Trove
Bradenton: Uniroyal Gal
Brandon: World's Largest Confederate Flag
Brooksville: Citrus Attraction at Boyett Groves
Brooksville: Headless Dinosaur Sculpture
Brooksville: Rainforest Dinosaurs - Vague Recollections
Brooksville: Time Portal Tromp L'oeil Murals
Cape Coral: Big John Statue
Cape Coral: Iwo Jima Statue
Captiva: The Bubble Room
Carrabelle: Bottle House, Bottle Lighthouse, Bottle Arch
Carrabelle: World's Smallest Police Station
Cassadaga: Town of Spiritualists
Cedar Key: Mosaic Fisherman and Fish
Cedar Key: Proud Redneck Tombstone
Celebration: Disney's Experimental Community
Christmas: Christmas Town - Holiday-themed
Christmas: World's Largest Alligator
Clearwater Beach: Hulk Hogan Statue
Clearwater Beach: Large Crazy-Colored Chair
Clearwater: Captain Memo's Pirate Cruise
Clearwater: Kapok Tree Inn - Gaudy Excess
Clermont: Florida Citrus Tower
Clermont: Ice Cream Cone Building
Clermont: Presidents Hall of Fame
Clermont: World's Largest Monster Truck Safari
Clewiston: Billie Swamp Safari: Home of Stuffed Superman
Clewiston: Everglades Mural and Bar
Cocoa Beach: "I Dream of Jeannie" TV Town
Cocoa Beach: Drive-In Church
Coconut Creek: Butterfly World
Crawfordville: Ford Truck Collection
Crawfordville: Old Joe, Stuffed Alligator
Crestview: Propane Tank Man
Crystal Beach: Nazi Infiltration Lookout Trees
Crystal River: Big Gorilla Statue
Crystal River: Yogi Bear Statue
Dade City: Dade City Citrus Museum and Theater
Dade City: Muffler Man - Paul Bunyan
Dade City: Statue of Liberty Lifted by Soldiers
Davie: Flamingo Gardens
Daytona Beach: Brownie the Town Dog
Daytona Beach: Cuddly Seniors who Created NASCAR
Daytona Beach: Dale Earnhardt Sr Statue
Daytona Beach: Drive-in Christian Church
Daytona Beach: Life-Size Steel Replica Of The First Airplane
Daytona Beach: Tiki Head With Red Glowing Eyes
DeLand: Reptile Discovery Center - Venom Collecting
Destin: Double Decker Bus of Mannequins
Destin: Shark Photo Op - Bass Pro Shops
Dover: Airstream Ranch
Dunedin: Beatles Yellow Submarine
Dunnellon: Discovery of Phosphate in Florida
Estero: Failed Hollow Earth Utopia
Everglades City: Panther Statue
Fernandina Beach: Lighthouse Home
Florida City: Southernmost Purple Martin House In The Continental USA
Fort Lauderdale: Wreck Bar Mermaid Show
Fort McCoy: 50-Foot-Tall Rocket
Fort Myers Beach: Large Tiki Statue
Fort Myers: Ethereal Thomas Edison Statue
Fort Myers: Giant Head of Beethoven
Fort Myers: Pipeosaurus - Imaginarium Dinosaur
Fort Myers: Shell Factory
Fort Myers: Twistee Treat
Fort Pierce: Junk Metal Horse Statue
Fort Pierce: National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum
Fort Pierce: Statue of a 9/11 Stewardess
Fort Walton Beach: 15-ft. Tall Coca-Cola Bottle
Fort Walton Beach: Large Shark
Fort Walton Beach: Oldest Surviving Goofy Golf
Fort Walton Beach: Reptile House
Ft. Myers: Manatee Park
Gainesville: Corn Snake Lookout
Gainesville: Devil's Millhopper Geologic State Park
Gainesville: Gatorade Birthplace
Gainesville: The "Talking Walls" of Haile Homestead
Gainesville: The Solar Walk
Gainesville: University of Florida Bat House
Gibsonton: Boot Monument for Civic Circus Giant
Greenville: Ray Charles Memorial
Gulf Breeze: Shoreline Park - UFO Mecca
Haines City: Home of The Boogerman
Hawthorne: Tony's Artistic Taxidermy and Museum
Hilliard: Tow Mater Replica
Hillsboro Beach: Barefoot Mailman Statue
Hobe Sound: Trapper Nelson's Zoo and Jungle Garden
Hollywood: Native Village: Gator Wrestling
Holt: Tree Stump Sprouting Animal Heads
Homestead: Coral Castle
Homestead: Everglades Alligator Farm
Homosassa Springs: Homosassa Springs Wildlife Park
Homosassa: Bubbles the Manatee
Homosassa: GMC Strong Man Statue
Homosassa: Manatee Tours - Weird Statues
Homosassa: Monkey Island
Homosassa: Neon Leon's - For Lynyrd Skynyrd Fans
Hudson: Ice Cream Cone-shaped Building
Indian Shores: Giant Pelican
Inverness: Concrete Man of Citrus County
Islamorada: Big Lobster
Islamorada: Not Hemingway's Boat
Islamorada: Robbie's Tarpon Feed
Islamorada: Theater of the Sea
Islamorada: Wrong Way Hurricane Monument
Jacksonville: Alligator Statue
Jacksonville: Giant Can of 7-UP
Jacksonville: Mini Golf Dinosaur
Jacksonville: Parking Garage Lighthouse
Jacksonville: U-Haul Truck On Building
Jensen Beach: Energy Encounter
Jensen Beach: Large Manta Ray Lawn Decoration
Kathleen: Bizarre Yard Sculptures
Key Largo: African Queen Movie Boat
Key Largo: Christ of the Deep
Key Largo: Jules' Undersea Lodge
Key Largo: World Parrot Mission
Key West: Bar With Death Chains In The Wall
Key West: Cigar Monument to Factory Worker
Key West: Ernest Hemingway's Museum and Freak Cats
Key West: Forrester's Secret Garden of Art and Parrots
Key West: Giant Ballroom Dancers
Key West: Key West Cemetery - Wacky Epitaphs
Key West: Large Roaring Tiger
Key West: Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society Museum
Key West: Museum of Torture and Execution
Key West: Southernmost Point in Continental USA
Key West: Sponge Monster
Kissimmee: Bigfoot Truck #7
Kissimmee: Buddhist Temple Tour
Kissimmee: China-Themed Super Market
Kissimmee: Gatorland
Kissimmee: Giant Golf Ball on Tee
Kissimmee: Ice Cream Cone-Shaped Building
Kissimmee: Lobster Car
Kissimmee: Medieval Times
Kissimmee: Monument of States
Kissimmee: Orange-Shaped Building
Kissimmee: Second Largest Gator Ever Built
Kissimmee: Xanadu: Home of the Future
Lake Buena Vista: Forrest Gump's Shrimp Boat
Lake Placid: Town of Murals
Lake Wales: Bok Singing Tower and Gardens
Lake Wales: Spook Hill
Lakeland: Forgotten Citrus Center Monument #3
Lakeland: Publix Birthday Cake Water Tower
Lakewood: Lowest State High Point in the US
Largo: Muffler Man
Largo: Saddam Hussein's Favorite Candy Bar
Leesburg: Paquette's Historical Farmall Tractor Museum
Lehigh Acres: World's Largest Mosquito
Live Oak: Suwannee Springs - Healing Springs Ruins
Lloyd: Johnny Donutseed
Longwood: Cypress Methuselah - Burned!
Loughman: Forgotten Citrus Center Monument #2
Lower Sugarloaf Key: Perky's Bat Tower
Lumberton: Forgotten Citrus Center Monument
Lynn Haven: Southernmost Tribute to a Union Soldier
Madeira Beach: The Hand of Fate
Madeira Beach: World's Largest Chicken Wing
Madison: Madison County Jail Museum
Marathon: Grave of Flipper, TV Dolphin
Marathon: Henry, The Pigeon Key Express
Marathon: World's Largest Queen Angel Fish
Marco Island: Otter Mound Shell Wall
Marineland: Marineland - Nothing Like the Original
Matlacha: Large Crab

Melbourne: Big Orange
Melbourne: Liberty Bell Memorial Museum
Merritt Island: Earth Boulder with Night Side
Mexico Beach: Giant Adirondack Chair
Miami: Car Stuck on Side of Building
Miami: Coppertone Girl Sign
Miami: Giant Naked Torso
Miami: Giant Sloth Statue
Miami: Indian Gator Wrestling
Miami: Jackie Gleason's Mausoleum
Miami: Jungle Island [formerly Parrot Jungle]
Miami: Monkey Jungle
Miami: Mr. Happy
Miami: Museum Where Elian Gonzalez Was Captured
Miami: Proposed Aircraft Carrier Site
Miami: Proposed: Pulse Sewage Plant Makeover
Miami: Statue of The Mother of Miami
Milton: Blue Angel Jet on a Stick
Miramar Beach: World's Largest Fishing Lure
Monticello: Daffodale Ghost Tours
Monticello: Orbs and Ghosts Plague B&B Camera Buffs
Mount Dora: Ghost Walk and Marionette Show
Mulberry: Mulberry Phosphate Museum
Nalcrest: Nalcrest: Postal Worker Golden Years Utopia
Naples: Swamp Buggy Races
Navarre: Souvenir City and Shark Museum
New Smyrna Beach: Grave in the Road
New Smyrna Beach: Turnbull Ruins of Unknown Purpose
New Smyrna Beach: Turtle Mound - Pile o' Shells
North Miami Beach: Derelict Scooby-Doo Van
North Miami Beach: Oldest Building in the Western Hemisphere
North Venice: Tervis Tumbler - 2-stories tall
Ocala: Big Daddy Don Garlits Museum Of Drag Racing
Ochopee: Skunk Ape Research Headquarters
Ochopee: Smallest Post Office in the United States
Ona: Solomon's Castle
Orlando: European Gourmet McDonald's
Orlando: Fertility Statues at Ripley's
Orlando: Giant Cross at First Baptist
Orlando: NBA Player Statue
Orlando: Plane Crashed into a Building
Orlando: Suburban Home Replica of Graceland
Orlando: The Holy Land Experience
Orlando: Titanic: The Experience
Orlando: Wonderworks - Upside-Down Building
Orlando: World's Largest Entertainment McDonald's
Ormond Beach: Invincible Chief Tomokie
Oviedo: Downtown's Wild Chickens
Oviedo: Oviedo Ghost Lights
Palatka: Railrodeo - Animated Miniature Railroad
Palm Beach Gardens: 9/11 Memorial Plaza - WTC Steel Beam
Palm Beach Gardens: Underground Shark Attack!
Palm Beach: Grave of Johnnie Brown, the Human Monkey
Palmdale: Gatorama
Panacea: Gulf Specimen - Touch All Invertebrates
Panama City Beach: Big Gus, 20,000 lb. Steer
Panama City Beach: Big Willy's Killer Whale
Panama City Beach: Giant Shark
Panama City Beach: Goofy Golf
Panama City Beach: Museum of Man in the Sea
Panama City Beach: Ocean Liner Wreck - Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Panama City Beach: WonderWorks - Upside-down Building
Penney Farms: J.C. Penney Statue - Failed Utopia
Pensacola - Gulf Breeze: Beach Ball Water Tower
Pensacola Beach: Dome of a Home
Pensacola Beach: Futuro - UFO House
Pensacola: Blue Angel on a Stick
Pensacola: Cross to First US Catholic Mass - Hurricane-Proof
Pensacola: Crystal Ice House
Pensacola: Fort Barrancas - Old Tunnels
Pensacola: Giant Roller Skate
Pensacola: Goofy Golf #2
Pensacola: National Museum of Naval Aviation
Pensacola: Pelicans in Paradise
Pensacola: Scaled-Down Vietnam War Wall
Pensacola: T. T. Wentworth Jr. Museum
Pierson: Aluminum Statues - Barberville Produce
Plant City: Bald Eagle, Supposed to be a Hawk
Plant City: Dinosaur World
Plant City: Strawberry Water Tower
Plant City: World's Largest Gone with the Wind Collection
Polk City: Fantasy of Flight
Polk City: Water Ski Experience Hall of Fame and Museum
Ponce Inlet: Second Tallest Lighthouse in US
Port Orange: Ruins of Bongoland
Port Saint Joe: Constitution Museum and Monument
Punta Gorda: "First White Man Dies In America" Marker
Punta Gorda: Military Heritage Museum
Quincy: Vintage Gulf Oak Service Station
Safety Harbor: Bowling Ball House - Whimzeyland
Santos: Concrete Monoliths
Sarasota: Boat and Lighthouse Home
Sarasota: Mini Golf with Live Alligators
Sarasota: Sarasota Jungle Gardens: Bike-Riding Parrot
Sarasota: Unconditional Surrender
Sarasota: World's Largest Miniature Circus
Seaside: Fiberglass Statue Factory
Sebastian: Mel Fisher's Treasure Museum
Silver Springs: Silver Springs: Glass Bottom Boats
Spring Hill: Gas Station Dinosaur
Spring Hill: Pepto-Bismol Pink Dinosaur
St. Augustine: Bluebird of Happiness
St. Augustine: Castle Otttis
St. Augustine: Fountain of Youth
St. Augustine: House Inside A Redwood Log
St. Augustine: Men's Room Pittsburgh Steelers Shrine
St. Augustine: Potter's Wax Museum
St. Augustine: Replica of Michelangelo's David
St. Augustine: Showboat Car Wash
St. Augustine: St. Augustine Alligator Farm
St. Augustine: St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum
St. Augustine: The Old Jail
St. Augustine: Thwarted Footsteps of Andrew Young
St. Augustine: World's Oldest Rug - Zorayda Castle Museum
St. Augustine: World's Tallest Cross
St. Cloud: Reptile World Serpentarium
St. Cloud: Ride a Bike in the Air through a Swamp
St. James City: St. James Automotive Gas Memorabilia
St. Pete Beach: Giant Flies
St. Pete Beach: Polynesian Putter Mini-Golf
St. Petersburg: Al Capone's Nightclub
St. Petersburg: Biff-Burger
St. Petersburg: Car Parts Lizard
St. Petersburg: Large Green Dinosaur
St. Petersburg: Largest Imported Cheese - Mazzaro
St. Petersburg: Sunken Gardens
St. Petersburg: Thrill Hill
St. Petersburg: World's Largest Shuffleboard Club
Stuart: House of Refuge at Gilbert's Bar
Tallahassee: Automobile Museum - Lincoln Funeral Carriage
Tallahasse: Yard Whales
Tampa: "Babe's Longest Homer" Marker
Tampa: "Billy Graham Began Here" Marker
Tampa: Beverage Castle
Tampa: Ferocious Fish Sculpture
Tampa: Futuro UFO House Atop a Strip Club
Tampa: Junk Art of Hong Kong Willie
Tampa: Muffler Man - 50th Street
Tampa: Muffler Man - Fletcher Ave.
Tampa: Recyclosaurus Dinosaur
Tampa: Rooftop Dragon
Tampa: Shriner Statue
Tampa: Sulphur Springs Water Tower
Tampa: World's Largest Bowling Pin
Tarpon Springs: Sponge Diver Memorial Statue
Tarpon Springs: Spongeorama
Tarpon Springs: Suncoast Primate Sanctuary (Chimp Farm)
Tavares: Magical Mickey, Skull of Monster
Titusville: American Police Hall of Fame and Museum
Titusville: Interspace: Life on Mars
Titusville: Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
Titusville: The Shuttle Launch Experience
Titusville: U.S. Space Walk of Fame Museum
Titusville: United States Astronaut Hall of Fame
Two Egg: Town With Unusual Name
Vero Beach: McKee Botanical Garden - Hall of Giants
Wakulla Springs: Henry the Pole-Vaulting Fish
Waldo: Big Rocking Chair
Wausau: Possum Monument in Possum Capital
Weeki Wachee: Weeki Wachee - City of Mermaids
Welaka: Welaka Maritime Museum
West Palm Beach: JFK Bomb Shelter on Peanut Island
White Springs: Stephen Foster Museum
Wildwood: Snark Missile
Winter Haven: Legoland Florida - USA in Miniature
Winter Park: American Flag House
Winter Park: Ironic Topiary Pigs
Winter Park: Rollins College Walk of Fame
Winter Park: The Molecular Dog
Zephyrhills: Ice Cream Cone Shaped Building
Zephyrhills: Muffler Man

Gone But Not Forgotten

Closed and extinct places to remember, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...

Altamonte Springs: Annoying Neighbor Butt Sculpture
Arcadia: Muffler Man - Indian - Gone
Bonita Springs: Everglades Wonder Gardens (Closed)
Bradenton: Muffler Man or Cowboy Hybrid
Brooksville: Large Chair
Chiefland: Dog Land
Clearwater: Virgin Mary in the Glass
Clewiston: Old South BBQ Ranch - Gone
Daytona Beach: Daytona 500 Experience - Closed
Daytona Beach: Klassix Auto Attraction - Gone
Destin: Museum of the Sea and Indian
Dundee: Clown Rushmore - Gone
Ellenton: Roaring 20s Pizza And Pipes - Closed
Fort Myers: Manatee World
Fort Myers: Transparent Woman - T.A.M.
Fort Walton Beach: Maytag Repairman Statue - Gone
Grayton Beach: Fiberglass Animal Factory
Haines City: Mouse Surplus - Closed
Hallandale: Santa Giantess - Gone
Homestead: Nuclear Dinosaur
Homosassa: Patriotic Restaurant, Flag-Waving Patrons
Indian Rocks Beach: Tiki Gardens - Gone
Jupiter: Burt Reynolds and Friends Museum
Kissimmee: Big Bamboo Lounge
Kissimmee: Splendid China - Closed
Kissimmee: Xanadu: Home of the Future (Closed)
Lake City: Alligator Town - Gone
Lake City: Aunt Aggie's Bone Yard - Gone
Melbourne: Tallest Wind Turbine in Florida
Merritt Island: Dragon Statue - Gone

Miami: Frog City
Miami: World Chess Hall of Fame - Closed
Naples: Teddy Bear Museum - Gone
New Port Richey: Giant Prospector - Gone
Ocala?: Batcave - Gone
Ocala: Brahma Bull Attraction - Gone
Orlando: Bomb-damaged Restaurant
Orlando: Great Dane, Giant Dog
Orlando: Hard Rock Vault - Closed
Orlando: Mystery Fun House
Orlando: The Bubble Room - Closed
Osprey: Floridaland
Palmdale: Gaskins' Cypress Knee Museum - Closed
Panama City Beach: King Neptune Statue
Panama City Beach: Snake-A-Torium
Panama City: Ice Cream Cone Shaped Building - Gone
Pensacola: Dinosaur Adventureland - Gone
Pensacola: Drive-Thru Funeral Home - Gone
Pinellas Park: Four Giant Greek Women
Sarasota: Village for Small People - Gone
Seminole: Panama Canal Museum - Teddy's Spittoon
St. Augustine Beach: Kon Tiki Kampground - Gone
St. Augustine: Neglected Yard of Old Planes - Gone
St. Augustine: Tragedy in US History Museum - Gone
St. Petersburg: Fountain of Youth
St. Petersburg: Webb's City - Gone
Titusville: Car Parts Family
Wildwood: Texaco-A Day Gas Station - Closed
Winter Haven: Cypress Gardens - Closed

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