Florida Attractions and Oddities

All the oddball Florida places in RoadsideAmerica.com Visitor Tips, news, stories and field reports. Closed and extinct attractions may be found in Gone But Not Forgotten

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Apalachicola: Museum to the Man who Invented Air Conditioning
Apopka: Splendid China Miniatures
Bithlo: School Bus Figure 8 Races
Bonita Springs: Everglades Wonder Gardens
Brandon: World's Largest Confederate Flag
Brooksville: Citrus Attraction at Boyett Groves
Brooksville: Headless Dinosaur Sculpture
Brooksville: Large Chair
Cape Coral: Big John Statue
Cape Coral: Iwo Jima statue
Captiva: The Bubble Room
Carrabelle: World's Smallest Police Station
Cassadaga: Town of Spiritualists
Cedar Key: Proud Redneck Tombstone
Celebration: Disney's Experimental Community
Christmas: Holiday-themed Christmas Town
Christmas: World's Largest Alligator
Clearwater: Captain Memo's Pirate Cruise
Clearwater: Kapok Tree Inn - Gaudy Excess
Clermont: Florida Citrus Tower
Clermont: Presidents Hall of Fame
Clewiston: Billie Swamp Safari: Home of Stuffed Superman
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
Crystal Beach: Nazi Infiltration Lookout Trees
Dade City: Dade City Citrus Museum and Theater
Dade City: Muffler Man - Paul Bunyan
Davie: Flamingo Gardens
Daytona Beach: Brownie the Town Dog
Daytona Beach: Cuddly Seniors who Created NASCAR
Daytona Beach: Dale Earnhardt Sr Statue
Daytona Beach: Daytona 500 Experience
Daytona Beach: Drive-in Christian Church
Daytona Beach: Life-Size Steel Replica Of The First Airplane
Daytona Beach: Tiki Head With Red Glowing Eyes
Dover: Airstream Ranch
Dundee: Clown Rushmore
Dunnellon: Discovery of Phosphate in Florida
Ellenton: Roaring 20s Pizza And Pipes
Estero: Failed Hollow Earth Utopia
Everglades City: Panther Statue
Fernandina Beach: Lighthouse Home
Florida City: Southernmost Purple Martin House In The Continental USA
Fort Myers: Giant Head of Beethoven
Fort Myers: Manatee World
Fort Myers: Transparent Woman - T.A.M.
Fort Myers: Twistee Treat
Fort Myers: Waltzing Waters - Shell Factory
Fort Pierce: Statue of a 9/11 Stewardess
Fort Walton Beach: 15-ft. Tall Coca-Cola Bottle
Fort Walton Beach: Maytag Repairman Statue
Fort Walton Beach: Oldest Surviving Goofy Golf
Fort Walton Beach: Reptile House
Fountain?: Rat Eatin' Frog
Gainesville: Devil's Millhopper Geologic State Park
Gibsonton: Circus Freak Wintering Town
Gulf Breeze: Shoreline Park - UFO Mecca
Hillsboro Beach: Barefoot Mailman Statue
Hollywood: Native Village: Gator Wrestling
Homestead: Coral Castle
Homestead: Everglades Alligator Farm
Homosassa Springs: Homosassa Springs Wildlife Park
Homosassa: Monkey Island
Homosassa: Patriotic Restaurant, Flag-Waving Patrons
Hudson: Ice Cream Cone-shaped Building
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: Giant Can of 7-UP
Jacksonville: Giant Ice Cream Cone
Jacksonville: Mini Golf Dinosaur
Jensen Beach: Energy Encounter
Jensen Beach: Large Manta Ray Lawn Decoration
Jupiter: Burt Reynolds and Friends Museum
Key Largo: Christ of the Deep
Key Largo: Jules' Undersea Lodge
Key West: Bar With Death Chains In The Wall
Key West: Ernest Hemingway's Museum and Freak Cats
Key West: Key West Cemetery - Wacky Epitaphs
Key West: Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society Museum
Key West: Museum of Torture and Execution (Ripley's Believe it or Not)
Key West: Pirate Soul Museum
Key West: Southernmost Point in US
Kissimmee: Buddhist Temple Tour
Kissimmee: China-Themed Super Market
Kissimmee: Gatorland
Kissimmee: Medieval Times
Kissimmee: Monument of States
Kissimmee: Orange-shaped Building
Kissimmee: Second Largest Gator Ever Built
Lake Wales: Bok Singing Tower and Gardens
Lake Wales: Spook Hill
Lakeland: Another Citrus Center Monument
Lakeland: Publix Birthday Cake Water Tower
Lakewood: Lowest State High Point in the US
Largo: Muffler Man
Largo: Saddam Hussein's Favorite Candy Bar
Lloyd: Johnny Donutseed
Longwood: The Cypress Methuselah
Loughman: Forgotten Citrus Center Monument #2
Lower Sugarloaf Key: Perky's Bat Tower
Lumberton: Forgotten Citrus Center Monument
Madison: Madison County Jail Museum
Marathon: Grave of Flipper, TV Dolphin
Marineland: Marineland - Nothing Like the Original
Melbourne: Big Orange
Melbourne: Liberty Bell Memorial Museum
Melbourne: Tallest Wind Turbine in Florida
Miami: Indian Gator Wrestling
Miami: Jackie Gleason's Mausoleum

Miami: Jungle Island [formerly Parrot Jungle]
Miami: Monkey Jungle
Miami: Proposed Aircraft Carrier Site
Miami: Proposed: Pulse Sewage Plant Makeover
Miami: World Chess Hall of Fame
Miami: World's Most Beautiful Publix Store
Monticello: Daffodale Ghost Tours
Monticello: Orbs and Ghosts Plague B&B Camera Buffs
Mount Dora: Ghost Walk and Marionette Show
Mulberry: Mulberry Phosphate Museum
Naples: Swamp Buggy Races
Navarre: Souvenir City and Shark "Museum"
New Smyrna Beach: Turnbull Ruins of Unknown Purpose
New Smyrna Beach: Turtle Mound - Pile o' Shells
North Miami Beach: Oldest Building in the Western Hemisphere
North Venice: Tervis Tumbler - 2-stories tall
Oakland: Wild McCaws of Florida
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: 4-Seater Space Ship
Orlando: European Gourmet McDonald's
Orlando: Fertility Statues at Ripley's
Orlando: Plane stuck in 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
Oviedo: Downtown's Wild Chickens
Oviedo: Oviedo Ghost Lights - Vague Recollections
Palatka: Railrodeo - Animated Miniature Railroad
Palm Beach: Grave of Johnnie Brown, the Human Monkey
Palmdale: Gatorama Wildlife Park
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: King Neptune Statue
Panama City Beach: Museum of Man in the Sea
Panama City Beach: Treasure Ship Restaurant
Panama City: Ice Cream Cone Shaped 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: Crystal Ice House
Pensacola: National Museum of Naval Aviation
Pensacola: Scaled-Down Vietnam War Wall
Pensacola: T. T. Wentworth Jr. Museum
Plant City: Dinosaur World
Plant City: World's Largest Gone with the Wind Collection
Port Orange: Ruins of Bongoland
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
Santos: Concrete Monoliths
Sarasota: "Unconditional Surrender" Kiss Statue
Sarasota: Boat and Lighthouse Home
Sarasota: Mini Golf with Live Alligators
Sarasota: Sarasota Jungle Gardens: Bike-Riding Parrot
Seaside: Fiberglass Statue Factory
Silver Springs: Silver Springs: Glass Bottom Boats
Spring Hill: Gas Station Dinosaur
Spring Hill: Pepto-Bismol Pink Dinosaur
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: Replica of Michelangelo's David
St. Augustine: Showboat Car Wash
St. Augustine: St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park
St. Augustine: The Old Jail
St. Augustine: World's Oldest Rug - Zorayda Castle Museum
St. Augustine: World's Tallest Cross
St. Pete Beach: Giant Flies
St. Petersburg: Biff-Burger
St. Petersburg: Car Parts Lizard
St. Petersburg: Sunken Gardens
St. Petersburg: Thrill Hill
St. Petersburg: World's Largest Shuffleboard Courts
Starke: Radiator man
Stuart: House of Refuge at Gilbert's Bar
Tallahassee: Automobile Museum - Lincoln Funeral Carriage
Tampa Bay Area: Muffler Man - Goin' Mobile
Tampa: "Babe's Longest Homer" Marker
Tampa: "Billy Graham Began Here" Marker
Tampa: Futuro UFO House Atop a Strip Club
Tampa: Jose Gaspar Pirate Ship
Tampa: Muffler Man
Tampa: Recyclosaurus Dinosaur
Tampa: Sulphur Springs Water Tower
Tampa: World's Largest Bowling Pin
Tarpon Springs: Spongeorama
Tarpon Springs: Suncoast Primate Sanctuary (Chimp Farm)
Titusville: American Police Hall of Fame and Museum
Titusville: Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
Titusville: The Shuttle Launch Experience
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
West Palm Beach: JFK Bomb Shelter on Peanut Island
White Springs: Stephen Foster Museum
Wildwood: "Snark" Missile
Winter Park: American Flag House
Winter Park: Ironic Topiary Pigs
Winter Park: Rollins College Walk of Fame
Zephyrhills: Baby Bottle Museum
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
Bradenton: Muffler Man or Cowboy Hybrid
Clearwater: Virgin Mary in the Glass
Clewiston: Old South BBQ Ranch - Gone
Daytona Beach: Klassix Auto Attraction - Gone
Destin: Museum of the Sea and Indian
Fort Lauderdale: Wreck Bar Mermaid Show
Grayton Beach: Fiberglass Animal Factory
Hallandale: Santa Giantess - Gone
Homestead: Nuclear Dinosaur
Indian Rocks Beach: Tiki Gardens - Gone
Key Largo: World Parrot Mission - gone
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
Merritt Island: Dragon Statue - Gone
Miami: Frog City
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: Snake-A-Torium
Pensacola: Dinosaur Adventureland - Gone
Pensacola: Drive-Thru Funeral Home - Gone
Pensacola: Goofy Golf #2 - Gone
Polk City: Fantasy of Flight Crash Victim
St. Augustine Beach: Kon Tiki Kampground - Gone
St. Augustine: Tragedy in US History Museum - Gone
St. Petersburg: Fountain of Youth
St. Petersburg: Webb's City
Suwannee Springs: Dog Land
Titusville: Car Parts Family
Wildwood: Texaco-A Day Gas Station - Closed
Winter Haven: Cypress Gardens - Closed

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