Florida Oddities

Architecture, Folklore & Forgotten Places

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Florida is often marketed in sunlight.

Beaches. Palms. Master-planned perfection.

But beneath the glare lives something older — and stranger.

A coral castle raised in heartbreak.

A spiritualist town where Victorian houses still host séances.

A fortress marooned in turquoise isolation.

A sinkhole that swallowed a forest and kept it.

Florida is not only tropical.

It is experimental. Eccentric. Occasionally haunted by its own ambition.

From the Panhandle to the Keys, the state is layered with structures that outlived their founders, utopian settlements that collapsed into legend, roadside monuments built on stubborn imagination, and communities shaped by belief as much as economics.

Some were built to escape society.

Some to impress it.

Some simply because one person refused to think small.

And these places matter.

Because real estate is never just square footage. It is story. It is geography shaped by dreamers, speculators, visionaries, and sometimes eccentrics.

Over the coming weeks, I will be featuring one Florida oddity at a time — rotating through each region of the state — exploring:

• The history behind the place

• The architecture or natural phenomenon

• The folklore attached to it

• And what it reveals about the character of its region

Not every location will appear in both of my platforms. Some stories will remain in my real estate page — rooted in place and property. Others, where myth and shadow run deeper, will also find a home here.

Because Florida is not one narrative.

It is sunlight layered over limestone, ambition layered over swamp, myth layered over memory.

And if you want to understand the land — whether buying, selling, or simply exploring — you must first understand its layers.

Welcome to Florida Oddities.

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