Haunted Florida

106 haunted destinations cataloged across Florida, spanning 41 counties. The collection features haunted hotel, cemetery, and museum — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.

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Velda Mound Park in Tallahassee, Florida — a Fort Walton-era platform mound (archaeological site 8LE44) preserved within a small city park

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Velda Mound Park

Tallahassee, FL

Velda Mound (archaeological site 8LE44) is a Fort Walton-culture platform mound and surrounding village site in north Tallahassee's Killearn Estates neighborhood. The mound was built around 1450 CE and occupied by Apalachee descendants until c. 1625, when the Spanish Mission period reshaped Apalachee settlement. The site is owned by the State of Florida and protected as a Tallahassee city park.

$ All Ages Family: High

Victorian-era two-story home with wraparound porch at the corner of Hypolita and Cordova Streets in St. Augustine, Florida

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Haunted Dining / Bar

Scarlett O'Hara's (The Scarlett House)

St. Augustine, FL

The Scarlett O'Hara's building at 70 Hypolita Street is an 1879 Victorian-era home, originally erected by George Colee for his fiancée before the marriage fell through. The property was joined to an adjacent structure and converted into a bar and restaurant in 1979; it has more recently been rebranded as 'The Scarlett House.'

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Biltmore Hotel

Coral Gables, FL

The Biltmore Hotel opened on January 15, 1926, as a palatial resort designed by acclaimed architects Schultze and Weaver and founded by developer George Merrick and hotel magnate John McEntee Bowman. Its tower was modeled after the Giralda in Seville, Spain. The hotel featured the world's largest swimming pool at the time and hosted high-society galas, fashion shows, and golf tournaments. During World War II, the federal government converted the property into a military hospital; it later operated as a veterans hospital and university campus until 1968. A comprehensive $55 million restoration returned the hotel to operation in 1987.

$$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Bridge over the Little Econ River on Old Econ Road near Orlando Florida, surrounded by Florida scrub and river vegetation

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Little Econ River (Old Econ Road Bridge)

Orlando, FL

The Little Econ River — a tributary of the Econlockhatchee — flows through eastern Orange County, Florida, near Orlando. The Old Econ Road crossing has accumulated local folklore since at least the 1980s. The broader Econlockhatchee corridor near Oviedo has a parallel legend tradition known as the 'Oviedo Lights,' glowing orb phenomena documented since the 1940s.

$ All Ages Family: High

Live oak hammock at Oak Hammock Park along the C-24 Canal in Port St. Lucie, Florida

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Other Dark Tourism Site

Oak Hammock Park (The Devil's Tree)

Port St. Lucie, FL

Oak Hammock Park is a Port St. Lucie city park along the C-24 Canal containing a southern live oak associated with the 1972 murders of Collette Goodenough and Barbara Ann Wilcox by Gerard John Schaefer, a former Martin County deputy sheriff. The girls' remains were discovered at the site in January 1977. Schaefer was convicted of two earlier murders in 1973 and killed in prison in 1995.

$ All Ages for park; underlying history is mature Family: Low

Outdoor / Natural Site

Ocala National Forest

Silver Springs, FL

The Ocala National Forest is the second-largest protected forest in Florida and the southernmost national forest in the continental United States, established in 1908. Covering more than 600 square miles between Daytona Beach and Ocala, it includes the largest contiguous sand-pine scrub ecosystem in the world. The name derives from Ocali, the historic Seminole leader of the region.

$ All Ages Family: High

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St. Augustine — 15

165-foot black-and-white striped St. Augustine Lighthouse on Anastasia Island, Florida, completed in 1874

Museum / Historical Site

St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum

St. Augustine, FL

The St. Augustine Lighthouse on Anastasia Island, Florida, was lit on October 15, 1874, replacing an older Spanish-era watchtower closer to shore. The 165-foot brick tower is Florida's oldest standing masonry lighthouse and is operated as a museum by the nonprofit St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum.

$$ All Ages; tower climb requires children to be 44 inches tall and climb under their own power Family: Moderate

Three-story stucco Mediterranean Revival bed-and-breakfast at 20 Cordova Street in St. Augustine, Florida

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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Casa de Sueños Bed & Breakfast

St. Augustine, FL

Casa de Sueños — 'House of Dreams' — was built as a single-family home in 1904 by the Carcaba cigar-making family at 20 Cordova Street in St. Augustine. After remodeling into Mediterranean Revival style, the home spent more than two decades as a working funeral home before reopening as a bed-and-breakfast in the late 1990s.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Casa Monica Hotel Moorish Revival facade and tower in St Augustine Florida

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Casa Monica Resort & Spa, Autograph Collection

St. Augustine, FL

Casa Monica opened on New Year's Day 1888, designed by Franklin W. Smith in an ornate Spanish and Moorish Revival style. Henry Flagler, co-founder of Standard Oil, purchased the hotel four months after opening. The Depression forced its closure in 1932; the building served as a courthouse until 1968 before being restored and reopened as a hotel in 1999.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Two-story Mediterranean Revival inn with arched portico facing Matanzas Bay along Avenida Menendez in St. Augustine, Florida

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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Casablanca Inn on the Bay

St. Augustine, FL

Casablanca Inn on the Bay opened in 1914 as the Matanzas Hotel on St. Augustine's bayfront. Built in the Mediterranean Revival style by an architect named Butler, the property has operated as a hotel or inn for over a century and is closely associated with Prohibition-era smuggling in the St. Augustine waterfront.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Battlefield / Military Site

Castillo de San Marcos

St. Augustine, FL

Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, Florida, is the oldest masonry fortress in the continental United States. Designed by Spanish military engineer Ignacio Daza, construction began in 1672 and the core fort was complete by 1695. The Castillo has never been taken in battle and changed sovereignty six times across Spanish, British, and American rule.

$ All Ages Family: High

Coquina-walled Spanish colonial private residence at 214 St. George Street in St. Augustine, Florida

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Haunted House / Historic Home

Don Pedro Horruytiner House

St. Augustine, FL

The Don Pedro Horruytiner House at 214 St. George Street is one of St. Augustine's oldest extant private residences, with masonry sections documented in the Library of Congress HABS survey as potentially dating from the First Spanish Period (1565-1763). The house is associated with the Horruytiner family, two of whose members served as governors of Spanish Florida.

$ All Ages Family: High

Spanish Renaissance Revival facade of Ponce de Leon Hall at Flagler College, Henry Flagler's 1888 Hotel Ponce de Leon designed by Carrere and Hastings, St. Augustine, Florida

Other Dark Tourism Site

Flagler College (Former Hotel Ponce de Leon)

St. Augustine, FL

The Hotel Ponce de Leon opened in 1888 as the flagship Gilded Age resort of Standard Oil co-founder Henry Morrison Flagler. Designed by Carrère and Hastings in Spanish Renaissance Revival style, it was one of the first major poured-in-place concrete buildings in the United States. It became Flagler College in 1968.

$ All Ages Family: High

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Huguenot Cemetery

St. Augustine, FL

The Huguenot Cemetery was established in 1821, weeks after Florida's transfer from Spain to the United States, during a yellow fever epidemic that killed dozens of people daily. Catholic cemeteries in the Spanish city refused burial to Protestants, necessitating a separate ground outside the city walls. The cemetery operated until 1884 and contains approximately 436 burials.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Two-story Spanish colonial restaurant building with green shutters on Avenida Menendez in St. Augustine, Florida

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Haunted Dining / Bar

O.C. White's Seafood & Spirits

St. Augustine, FL

The building that houses O.C. White's Seafood & Spirits at 118 Avenida Menendez dates to 1790, originally built by Don Miguel Ysnardy as a private residence. After service as one of St. Augustine's first hotels and a series of private owners, the structure was relocated in 1961 to its current bayfront site. The O.C. White family acquired the building in 1992 and opened the restaurant.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Exterior of the Old St. Johns County Jail at 167 San Marco Avenue in St. Augustine, Florida, built 1891

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Museum / Historical Site

Old Jail Museum

St. Augustine, FL

The Old St. Johns County Jail at 167 San Marco Avenue in St. Augustine, Florida was commissioned by railroad magnate Henry Flagler and constructed in 1891. Designed by the same architectural firm later used for Alcatraz, the facility housed prisoners under conditions so severe — one bucket per cell as a toilet, minimal diet, and labor in Flagler's fields — that it was closed in 1953. Eight documented executions occurred on site before the county converted the building to a tourist attraction in 1954.

$$ All Ages (daytime); 18+ recommended for After Dark tours Family: Moderate

Pink Romanesque exterior of the 1891 Old St. Johns County Jail at 167 San Marco Avenue, St. Augustine, Florida

Prison / Reformatory

Old St. Augustine Jail

St. Augustine, FL

The Old St. Johns County Jail at 167 San Marco Avenue in St. Augustine was built by Henry Flagler in 1891 to remove the previous downtown jail from view of his Ponce de Leon Hotel guests. Constructed in the Romanesque style by the P.J. Pauley Jail Company (the builder of Alcatraz), the jail operated from 1891 to 1953. Eight documented hangings were carried out in the east yard.

$$ All Ages for daytime; minimum age may apply for evening tours Family: Moderate

Asylum / Hospital

Spanish Military Hospital Museum

St. Augustine, FL

The Spanish Military Hospital Museum at 3 Aviles Street is a 1960s-era reconstruction of a Second Spanish Period (1784-1821) Spanish royal military hospital. Rebuilt on its original foundations, the museum interprets 18th-century military medicine, surgery, and apothecary practice in St. Augustine.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Museum / Historical Site

St. Augustine Lighthouse

St. Augustine, FL

St. Augustine Lighthouse, completed in 1874, replaced an earlier Spanish coquina watchtower at the entrance to Matanzas Bay. The 165-foot brick tower with black-and-white spiral daymark and red lantern room is the oldest surviving brick structure in St. Augustine and houses the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program museum.

$$ Tower climb requires minimum height 44 inches Family: Moderate

Three-story Spanish colonial coquina inn with second-story balcony at 279 St. George Street in St. Augustine, Florida

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Haunted Hotel / Inn

St. Francis Inn

St. Augustine, FL

The St. Francis Inn at 279 St. George Street was built in 1791 by Sergeant Gaspar Garcia of the Spanish 3rd Infantry Battalion as a private residence on a Spanish royal land grant. Over more than two centuries the building has served as a private home, boarding house, and bed-and-breakfast, and is among the oldest continuously occupied buildings in St. Augustine.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Tolomato Cemetery

St. Augustine, FL

Tolomato Cemetery on Cordova Street in St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest planned cemetery in the state of Florida. The site occupies the former location of a Guale Indian mission village ministered by Franciscan friars in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The cemetery served the Catholic population of St. Augustine from the 1770s until 1884.

$ All Ages Family: High

Tallahassee — 8

The c.1840 Bellevue Plantation house — home of Catherine Murat, great-grandniece of George Washington — now preserved at the Tallahassee Museum.

Museum / Historical Site

Bellevue Plantation at Tallahassee Museum

Tallahassee, FL

Bellevue is a c. 1840 frame plantation house that was the U.S. home of Catherine Willis Gray Murat from 1854 until her death in 1867. Catherine, a great-grandniece of George Washington, gained her royal title through her marriage to Prince Achille Murat, nephew of Napoleon. The 520-acre Jackson Bluff Road cotton plantation she owned was worked by enslaved people. The house was relocated in the 20th century to the Tallahassee Museum, where it is a permanent exhibit.

$$ All Ages Family: High

The Calvin Phillips Mausoleum, a 20-foot onion-domed tomb in Oakland Cemetery, Tallahassee, Florida, designed and built by its eventual occupant in 1919

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Calvin Phillips Mausoleum, Oakland Cemetery

Tallahassee, FL

Calvin C. Phillips (1832-1919) was a New York-trained architect who came to Tallahassee in the early 20th century. In 1919, at age 87, he constructed his own mausoleum in Oakland Cemetery, finishing it in November 1919 just days before his death. He was buried in a cherry-wood coffin he had built himself. His skull was stolen from the mausoleum in 2000 and the metal door is now bolted closed.

$ All Ages Family: High

The 1927 Exchange Bank Building at 201 South Monroe Street, Tallahassee, Florida — five-story office building by architect William Augustus Edwards, the city's tallest at its 1928 opening

Other Dark Tourism Site

Exchange Bank Building (Federal Exchange Building)

Tallahassee, FL

The Exchange Bank Building, also known as the Federal Exchange Building, is a five-story 1927 William Augustus Edwards-designed office building at 201 South Monroe Street at College Avenue. It was the tallest building in Tallahassee at its opening on March 3, 1928. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places and remains an active commercial address.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

The 1910 Collegiate Gothic Westcott Building and fountain at Florida State University, Tallahassee, atop historic Gallows Hill

Other Dark Tourism Site

FSU Westcott Building & Ruby Diamond Concert Hall (Gallows Hill)

Tallahassee, FL

The James D. Westcott Memorial Building was constructed in 1910 as the administrative center of the Florida State College for Women and is FSU's oldest standing building. Designed by William Augustus Edwards in Collegiate Gothic style, it houses the Ruby Diamond Concert Hall and faces the Westcott Fountain. The site is built over what was historically known as Gallows Hill, Tallahassee's pre-statehood execution ground established in 1829.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Museum / Historical Site

Goodwood Museum & Gardens

Tallahassee, FL

Goodwood's main house was built c. 1840 on land that was part of a 1,600-acre cotton plantation purchased in 1834 by the Croom family of North Carolina, who brought 60 enslaved people to work the property. After the Croom family's 1837 maritime disaster and a Florida Supreme Court estate case, the property passed through the Hopkins, Arrowsmith, Tiers, and Hodges families. Margaret Wilson Hodges left the 20-acre core to a charitable foundation, and Goodwood has operated as a house museum since 1996.

$$ All Ages Family: High

The Lively Building at the corner of South Monroe Street and East College Avenue in downtown Tallahassee, former site of the 1892-1904 Leon Bar

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Haunted Dining / Bar

The Lively Building (former Leon Bar)

Tallahassee, FL

The Lively Building stands at 198 East College Avenue at the corner of Monroe Street in downtown Tallahassee. It is a late-19th-century commercial building best known for hosting the Leon Bar from 1892 to 1904, when Tallahassee enacted prohibition. The saloon era was associated with multiple shootings and at least one murder on the premises.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Old City Cemetery

Tallahassee, FL

The Old City Cemetery was established in 1829 as Tallahassee's first public burial ground and expanded during the 1840s yellow-fever epidemics. It contains the graves of 19th-century politicians, enslaved people, business owners, Civil War soldiers from both sides, and yellow-fever victims. Its most-visited monument is the 1889 obelisk of Elizabeth 'Bessie' Budd-Graham.

$ All Ages Family: High

The Columns, c. 1830 Greek Revival mansion at 100 North Duval Street, Tallahassee, Florida

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Haunted House / Historic Home

The Columns

Tallahassee, FL

The Columns, also known as the William 'Money' Williams House, is a Greek Revival mansion built around 1830 by banker William Williams and is one of Tallahassee's oldest surviving buildings. It was relocated from the corner of Park and Adams to 100 North Duval in 1971 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 21, 1975. Since 2011 the building has been owned by the James Madison Institute, which uses it as headquarters.

$ All Ages Family: High

Jacksonville — 6

Dr. Horace Drew Mansion, 245 West 3rd Street, Springfield, Jacksonville — 1909 eclectic Tudor Revival mansion

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Haunted House / Historic Home

Dr. Horace Drew Mansion

Jacksonville, FL

The Dr. Horace Drew Mansion is an eclectic 1909 home blending Tudor Revival, Queen Anne, and Spanish Colonial Revival elements, built by Dr. Horace R. Drew (grandson of Jacksonville pioneer Columbus Drew) at the corner of 3rd and Pearl Streets in the Springfield historic neighborhood. As of December 2025 it is owned by Springfield Preservation and Revitalization (SPAR), which has announced rehab plans.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

El Modelo Block, 501-513 West Bay Street, Jacksonville, Florida — 1887 NRHP-listed building that survived the Great Fire of 1901

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Other Dark Tourism Site

El Modelo Block (Plaza Hotel)

Jacksonville, FL

The El Modelo Block is an 1887 brick block at 501-513 West Bay Street in downtown Jacksonville. From roughly 1890 to 1898 it housed Gabriel Hidalgo Gato's El Modelo Cigar Manufacturing Company; later it operated as the Plaza Hotel. It is one of the few downtown buildings that survived the Great Fire of 1901 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 16, 1980 (reference 80000948).

$ All Ages Family: High

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Evergreen Cemetery

Jacksonville, FL

Evergreen Cemetery is a 167-acre operating historic cemetery at 4535 North Main Street in Jacksonville, founded in 1880 and the oldest fully-operating cemetery in the city. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 8, 2011, and holds more than 80,000 burials.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Entrance gate of Old City Cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida — the city's oldest established burial ground, founded in 1852.

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Old City Cemetery (Jacksonville)

Jacksonville, FL

Old City Cemetery is Jacksonville's oldest established city burial ground, donated to the Town of Jacksonville by Captain Charles and Frances Willey in 1852 at the juncture of Union and Catherine Streets. The cemetery is bounded by Jessie, Ionia, Union, and Washington Streets and is designated a Jacksonville historic landmark.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Asylum / Hospital

Old St. Luke's Hospital

Jacksonville, FL

Old St. Luke's Hospital was built at the corner of Palmetto and Duval Streets in 1878 and operated as Florida's first established hospital until 1914. It cared for Jacksonville through the 1888 yellow-fever epidemic, the 1898 typhoid epidemic, and the Great Fire of 1901, and is now owned by the Jacksonville Historical Society and houses its archives. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1972.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

River House at 2105 River Boulevard, Jacksonville, Florida — Second Empire former resort hotel built ~1869

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Haunted House / Historic Home

River House (Rochester House / Riverside House)

Jacksonville, FL

Originally built around 1869 near Leila Street and Riverside Avenue as Rochester House, the building was a Second Empire-style resort hotel that hosted Mary Todd Lincoln in 1874-1875 during her period of grief and ill health. In 1911 it was barged upriver to its present location at 2105 River Boulevard in Riverside.

$ All Ages Family: High

Key West — 5

Haunted Dining / Bar

Captain Tony's Saloon

Key West, FL

Captain Tony's Saloon at 428 Greene Street in Key West, Florida, occupies an 1851 building that has served as an ice house, the city morgue, a wireless telegraph station, and the original Sloppy Joe's Bar — where Ernest Hemingway drank between 1933 and 1937. The original hanging tree, where reportedly 75 executions took place in the colonial-era yard, still grows through the center of the barroom.

$$ 21+ Family: Not Recommended

Coral-stone facade of St. Paul's Episcopal Church on Duval Street in Key West, Florida

Cemetery / Burial Ground

St. Paul's Episcopal Church Memorial Garden

Key West, FL

St. Paul's Episcopal Church was founded in 1831 by act of the Key West City Council, with John Fleming's widow donating the land in 1832 on the condition that the property remain her late husband's resting place. The current 1919 building is the fourth structure on the site, with earlier churches destroyed by hurricane (1846), fire (1886), and demolition.

$ All Ages Family: High

Brick exterior of the Fort East Martello Tower museum in Key West, Florida, home of Robert the Doll

Museum / Historical Site

Fort East Martello Museum (Robert the Doll)

Key West, FL

Fort East Martello is one of two Martello towers built in Key West starting in 1862 to defend the Union-held island against potential Confederate sea attack. Construction continued into the post-Civil War years but was never fully completed. The Key West Art and Historical Society acquired the fort and converted it to a museum, now best known for housing Robert the Doll.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Key West Cemetery

Key West, FL

Key West Cemetery was established in 1847 after an 1846 hurricane disinterred the previous cemetery on Whitehead Point. The new burial ground was sited on the highest point of the island. The cemetery contains an estimated 100,000 burials across nineteen acres, including approximately two dozen sailors killed in the 1898 USS Maine explosion.

$ All Ages Family: High

Historic 1968 photograph of the sally fort main entrance on the north elevation of Fort Zachary Taylor in Key West, documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey

Museum / Historical Site

Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park

Key West, FL

Fort Zachary Taylor in Key West, Florida began construction in 1845 as part of a post-War of 1812 coastal defense network. Yellow fever epidemics repeatedly slowed construction through the 1850s, killing significant numbers of the garrison. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1973, the fort now holds the largest documented cache of Civil War armaments in the United States.

$ All Ages Family: High

Pensacola — 5

Museum / Historical Site

Clara Barkley Dorr House

Pensacola, FL

The Clara Barkley Dorr House at 311 South Adams Street was built in 1871 for Clara Barkley Dorr and her five children following the 1870 death of her husband Eben Walker Dorr, a Bagdad, Florida lumber executive. The house is part of Historic Pensacola Village and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Pensacola Historic District residence on Alcaniz Street

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Haunted House / Historic Home

House on Alcaniz Street

Pensacola, FL

Alcaniz Street is a historic Pensacola street running through the Seville Square Historic District. The district dates to a 1752 outpost named San Miguel, with Seville Square established as a public square by the British in 1764.

$ All Ages (exterior viewing only) Family: High

Pensacola Lighthouse tall historic black-and-white striped tower in Pensacola, Florida

Museum / Historical Site

Pensacola Lighthouse and Maritime Museum

Pensacola, FL

The Pensacola Lighthouse at Naval Air Station Pensacola has marked the entrance to Pensacola Bay since 1859. The current tower replaced an earlier lighthouse dating to 1824. The lighthouse's Keeper's Quarters now operates as a maritime museum. Located entirely within an active military installation, civilian visitors must take a shuttle from outside the base perimeter.

$$ All Ages (ghost hunts 13+) Family: Moderate

Asylum / Hospital

Old Sacred Heart Hospital (Tower East)

Pensacola, FL

The Old Sacred Heart Hospital opened in 1915 at 1010 North 12th Avenue in Pensacola as the first Catholic hospital in Florida, founded by the Daughters of Charity. The late Gothic Revival building was designed by A.O. Von Herbulis. The hospital relocated in 1965; the building is now Tower East, a mixed-use property that includes O'Zone Pizza Pub.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Cemetery / Burial Ground

St. Michael's Cemetery

Pensacola, FL

St. Michael's Cemetery is one of the two oldest extant cemeteries in Florida, formally designated by King Charles IV of Spain in 1807 in colonial Pensacola. The eight-acre cemetery contains over 3,000 marked graves and was designated a Florida state park in 1949. It is now operated by the St. Michael's Cemetery Foundation of Pensacola.

$ All Ages Family: High

Tampa — 5

Theater / Performance Venue

Tampa Theatre

Tampa, FL

Tampa Theatre opened on October 15, 1926, designed by atmospheric theater architect John Eberson. The interior simulates an outdoor Mediterranean courtyard under a night sky — a technique Eberson called 'atmospheric' design. The theater operated as a first-run cinema for decades, fell into decline in the 1970s, and was saved from demolition by a community preservation campaign. It is now operated by the City of Tampa as a film, event, and performance venue and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

$$ All Ages (ghost tours and paranormal investigations may vary) Family: High

Other Dark Tourism Site

The Cuban Club (El Circulo Cubano de Tampa)

Tampa, FL

El Circulo Cubano de Tampa is the historic Cuban mutual-aid society of Ybor City. The current four-story building at 2010 Avenida Republica de Cuba was designed by Tampa architect M. Leo Elliott and completed in 1917 after a 1916 fire destroyed the society's 1908 clubhouse. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Other Dark Tourism Site

L'Unione Italiana (The Italian Club of Tampa)

Tampa, FL

L'Unione Italiana was founded in 1894 as a mutual-aid society for Italian immigrants working in Ybor City's cigar industry. Its first clubhouse was completed in 1911 and burned in 1914. The current building was designed by Tampa architect M. Leo Elliott and completed in 1918 on East 7th Avenue, where it continues to operate as the Italian Club of Tampa.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Oaklawn Cemetery

Tampa, FL

Oaklawn Cemetery was established in 1850 as Tampa's first public burial ground, deeded as a resting place for 'white and slave, rich and poor.' Located at Morgan and Harrison Streets in downtown Tampa, it contains approximately 1,700 graves including those of Tampa's first mayor Joseph B. Lancaster, cigar magnate Vicente Martinez Ybor, William and Nancy Ashley, Confederate soldiers, and victims of the 1887 yellow-fever epidemic. The cemetery and its adjoining St. Louis Catholic Cemetery were added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on September 19, 2017.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Exterior of the Old Federal Courthouse (now Le Meridien Tampa) on Florida Avenue, a 1905 Beaux Arts building with stately columns and decorative cornices.

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Old Federal Courthouse (Le Meridien Tampa, The Courthouse)

Tampa, FL

Tampa's Old Federal Courthouse opened in 1905 as the U.S. Post Office, Courthouse, and Customhouse, designed by James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury. The Beaux-Arts building served as the seat of the U.S. District Court for Tampa and hosted the 1950 Kefauver Committee hearings on organized crime. After decades of federal use it was transferred to the City of Tampa in 2003 and reopened on July 14, 2014, as Le Meridien Tampa, The Courthouse, a 130-room boutique hotel.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Fernandina Beach — 3

Spanish-moss-draped oaks shading the historic Spanish-colonial-era Bosque Bello Cemetery on Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach Florida

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Bosque Bello Cemetery

Fernandina Beach, FL

Bosque Bello — Spanish for beautiful woods — was established in 1798 on Amelia Island when Fernandina was still under Spanish colonial rule. The cemetery sits on land originally part of a Spanish land grant to Domingo Fernandez and holds burials spanning more than two centuries of north Florida history.

$ All Ages Family: High

Battlefield / Military Site

Fort Clinch State Park

Fernandina Beach, FL

Fort Clinch on Amelia Island in northeast Florida is a Third System masonry coastal fort begun in 1847 and never fully completed. The fort changed hands twice during the American Civil War, served briefly as a Spanish-American War garrison, and is now operated as Fort Clinch State Park by the Florida Park Service.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

The former Nassau County Jail building, now the Amelia Island Museum of History, in Fernandina Beach, Florida

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Museum / Historical Site

Old Jail — Amelia Island Museum of History

Fernandina Beach, FL

The Amelia Island Museum of History occupies the former Nassau County Jail in downtown Fernandina Beach, a brick building dating to the late 19th / early 20th century. Florida's first 'spoken history' museum, it interprets more than 4,000 years of local history, from Timucuan settlement through the island's storied period under eight flags and its early-1800s era of privateers and pirates. The museum is an active institution offering exhibits, lectures, and guided tours.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Jacksonville Beach — 3

Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/53581
Local call number: SP02700
Title: Jacksonville Beach, Florida
Date: September 1936
Physical descrip: 1 photograph - b&w - 8 x 10 in.
Series Title: Print Collections
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida

500 S. Bronough St., Tallah

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Haunted Dining / Bar

The Homestead Restaurant (Now TacoLu)

Jacksonville Beach, FL

The log cabin at 1712 Beach Boulevard in Jacksonville Beach was built in 1934. Alpha Paynter — born Alpha Pullen in 1887, later divorced and settled at the beach — inherited the structure and opened it as a boarding house before converting it to The Homestead Restaurant. Under Paynter's ownership and after her death in 1962, the Homestead served Southern cooking for nearly eight decades, becoming one of the First Coast's most enduring dining institutions. The building closed as the Homestead at the end of 2010 and reopened as TacoLu Baja Mexicana in 2012.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Casa Marina Hotel

Jacksonville Beach, FL

The Casa Marina opened June 6, 1925 in Jacksonville Beach as a Spanish-Mediterranean Revival oceanfront hotel — two stories of stucco and concrete with one of Jacksonville's first automatic sprinkler systems. Notable early guests included Rockefellers, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Roosevelts, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Harlow, Buster Keaton, Mary Pickford, and Fatty Arbuckle. Mobsters Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly reportedly used the hotel as a base.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Two-story 1934 log-cabin exterior of TacoLu Baja Mexicana (former Homestead Restaurant), Jacksonville Beach

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Haunted Dining / Bar

TacoLu Baja Mexicana (Alpha Paynter Homestead)

Jacksonville Beach, FL

In 1934, Alpha Paynter purchased land on Hogan Road (now part of Beach Boulevard) and built a two-story log cabin that served as her home and a boarding house; the property eventually became the Homestead Restaurant. After Paynter's death (circa the 1960s), the Homestead continued under successive owners until it closed in 2011. In 2012, Debbie and Don Nicol relocated TacoLu Baja Mexicana into the cabin, where it has operated ever since.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Brooksville — 2

Museum / Historical Site

May-Stringer House

Brooksville, FL

The May-Stringer House at 601 Museum Court in Brooksville was built in 1855 as the home of John May, one of Hernando County's early settlers. The home briefly served as a hospital during the Civil War. After John May's death, his widow married Marcius Stringer, and the property passed through both families' histories before eventually becoming the Hernando Heritage Museum. It is now operated by the Hernando Historical Museum Association.

$ All Ages for regular museum; ghost tours require age judgment Family: Moderate

Brooksville, Florida placeholder for the Weeks House

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Haunted House / Historic Home

The Weeks House (Brooksville)

Brooksville, FL

The Weeks House is described in regional Florida paranormal writing as an early twentieth-century family home in Brooksville and was featured in local newspapers including the Tampa Tribune and the St. Petersburg Times. The specific street address is not publicly documented in indexed sources, and most contemporary Brooksville haunted-home writing focuses on the May-Stringer House (Hernando Heritage Museum) rather than the Weeks House.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Davie — 2

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Other Dark Tourism Site

Broward College Central Campus

Davie, FL

Broward College's Central Campus in Davie operates as a comprehensive community college serving South Florida. On January 21, 2002, a domestic violence murder-suicide occurred on campus between Building 5 and an adjacent structure, resulting in two deaths and creating the historical trauma that spawned persistent paranormal reports.

$ All Ages (Campus Access Restricted) Family: Low

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Other Dark Tourism Site

Waffle House #929

Davie, FL

On March 11, 2002, Gerhard Hojan and accomplice Jimmy Mickel robbed the Waffle House at 2580 Davie Road in Davie, Florida, and fatally shot employees Christina Delarosa and Willy Absolu. A third employee, Barbara Nunn, survived the attack. Hojan was convicted of murder and sentenced to death; the Florida Supreme Court denied his appeal. The restaurant has continued operating at the same address since the murders.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Fort Lauderdale — 2

New River Inn at History Fort Lauderdale, 1905 historic two-story building in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Museum / Historical Site

New River Inn (History Fort Lauderdale)

Fort Lauderdale, FL

The New River Inn was built in 1905 by contractor Edwin T. King for Nathan Philemon Bryan, a Jacksonville native and U.S. senator. Its hollow concrete-block construction — using sand dredged from the nearby beach — established building standards for the region. The 24-room hotel operated until 1955, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and now serves as the centerpiece of the History Fort Lauderdale museum complex at 231 SW 2nd Avenue.

$$ All Ages Family: High

The former Sunrise Hall dormitory building of the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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Other Dark Tourism Site

Sunrise Hall — Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale Dormitory

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Sunrise Hall served as student housing for the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, a for-profit art and design college. The dormitory occupied a building originally constructed around 1962 as the Carriage House Motor Lodge (later the River Inn), which was converted to college housing in 1992. The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale announced its closure in July 2018 and ceased operations in December 2018.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Orange City — 2

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Blue Springs

Orange City, FL

Blue Spring State Park encompasses 2,600 acres of preserved natural habitat around Volusia Blue Spring, the largest natural spring system on the St. Johns River. Louis P. Thursby settled the area in 1856, establishing one of the first steamboat landings and orange groves on the upper river. The Thursby House, constructed in 1872 from Georgia pine and expanded in 1900, now operates as a museum within the park. The spring's consistent 72-73 degree temperature makes it a critical winter refuge for Florida manatees.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Other Dark Tourism Site

Lankford Funeral Home

Orange City, FL

The Lankford Funeral Home at 190 S Holly Avenue in Orange City, Florida occupies a house constructed in 1918. The building served as a private residence before being converted for funeral services. The Lankford company opened its Orange City location in 1962 after expanding from its original DeLand chapel, established in 1950.

$ All Ages Family: High

Orlando — 2

The Leu House Museum surrounded by gardens at Harry P. Leu Gardens in Orlando, Florida

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Museum / Historical Site

Harry P. Leu Gardens

Orlando, FL

Harry P. Leu purchased the property in 1936 along with 40 acres of land adjacent to Orlando's Lake Rowena. He and his wife Mary Jane traveled extensively, collecting exotic plants and camellia varieties from around the world to establish the gardens. In 1961 the couple deeded the house and gardens to the City of Orlando. The gardens have since expanded to approximately 50 acres and are operated as a public botanical garden and museum.

$$ All Ages Family: High

The Peabody Orlando (now Hyatt Regency Orlando) hotel exterior, Orlando Florida

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hyatt Regency Orlando (formerly Peabody Orlando)

Orlando, FL

The Peabody Orlando opened in 1986 as a 1,641-room convention hotel on International Drive, becoming the second-tallest building in Orlando at the time of its construction. It operated as a sister property to The Peabody Memphis until October 2013, when Hyatt Hotels Corporation purchased the property and rebranded it as the Hyatt Regency Orlando.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

St. Petersburg — 2

Museum / Historical Site

Haslam's Book Store

St. Petersburg, FL

Haslam's Book Store was founded in 1933 by John and Mary Haslam during the Great Depression. Mary began by selling handcrafts and used magazines before the business grew into what became Florida's largest independent bookstore, covering over 30,000 square feet. The store closed in March 2020 and as of late 2025 remains permanently closed.

$ All Ages Family: High

The Vinoy Resort historic pink Mediterranean Revival hotel exterior, St. Petersburg, Florida

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Vinoy Resort & Golf Club

St. Petersburg, FL

The Vinoy Resort opened on December 31, 1925, as a Mediterranean Revival luxury hotel on the bayfront of downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. It was financed by Aymer Vinoy Laughner and designed by architect Henry L. Taylor. The hotel served as a US Army Air Forces training school during World War II, closed in 1974, and reopened in 1992 after a $93 million restoration. The Vinoy is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

$$$$ All Ages Family: High

Apalachicola — 1

Exterior of the historic Gibson Inn, a three-story Victorian wood-frame inn in the Apalachicola Historic District, Florida

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Gibson Inn

Apalachicola, FL

The Gibson Inn was built in 1907 in Apalachicola, Florida by James Fulton Buck as the Franklin Hotel. In 1923, sisters Annie and Mary Ella 'Sunshine' Gibson purchased the property and renamed it. The hotel served as U.S. Army officers' quarters beginning in 1942. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and reopened that year after a major rehabilitation.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Apopka — 1

1903 Queen Anne Victorian Highland Manor in Apopka, Florida

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Haunted House / Historic Home

Highland Manor (formerly Townsend's Plantation and The Captain & The Cowboy)

Apopka, FL

The 1903 Queen Anne Victorian known today as Highland Manor was built in Apopka, Florida by the Eldredge family. In the 1920s, Dr. Thomas McBride bought the home and lived with his wife Helen on the second floor while seeing patients on the first. The house was moved to its current location at 604 East Main Street in 1985. It operated as Townsend's Plantation restaurant from the 1990s until 1997, then briefly as The Captain & The Cowboy from 1997 to 2005. Since 2008 it has functioned as the Highland Manor wedding venue.

$ All Ages Family: High

Bagdad — 1

Victorian obelisks and 19th-century monuments at the Bagdad Historic Cemetery in Santa Rosa County, Florida

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Bagdad Historic Cemetery

Bagdad, FL

Bagdad Historic Cemetery sits on about ten acres in the historic mill village of Bagdad, east of Milton in Santa Rosa County, with roughly 1,800-2,000 interments. It is the resting place of Bagdad's founder Joseph Forsyth, whose grave is marked by a nine-foot obelisk, and of shipbuilder Martin F. Bruce. The cemetery lies within the Bagdad Village Historic District and is maintained by the Bagdad Historic Cemetery Association, a nonprofit formed in 2006.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Bartow — 1

Neoclassical 1909 Old Polk County Courthouse, now the Polk County History Center, in Bartow, Florida

Museum / Historical Site

Old Polk County Courthouse (Polk County History Center)

Bartow, FL

The Old Polk County Courthouse was completed in 1909 as the county's third courthouse, on a site that had also held the 1883 courthouse. Designed in neoclassical style, it served as the operating courthouse through 1987. Since 1998 the building has housed the Polk County History Center, including the Historical Museum and the Historical and Genealogical Library. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

$ All Ages Family: High

Belleair — 1

Exterior of the Belleview-Biltmore Hotel in Belleair Florida, white wooden Queen Anne facade with green roof

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Belleview Biltmore Resort / Spa

Belleair, FL

The Belleview-Biltmore opened in 1897 as a Henry Plant resort hotel built to draw winter rail traffic to Florida's Gulf coast. The 820,000-square-foot Queen Anne complex was the largest occupied wooden structure in the world before its 2015 demolition, with one preserved central section moved and reopened in 2018 as the Belleview Inn.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Boca Raton — 1

View of the Boca Raton Inlet and Bridge in Boca Raton, Florida — the South Inlet Park area where decades of paranormal reports have been documented

Outdoor / Natural Site

South Inlet Park / Boca Raton Inlet

Boca Raton, FL

South Inlet Park sits on Boca Raton's eastern coastline, two miles southeast of downtown. The park preserves the Eshleman Pavilion, a 1930s Porte Cochere moved to the site in 1981 from the historic Cabana Club. Listed on Palm Beach County's Historic Registry, it offers fishing, swimming, and picnic facilities.

$ All Ages Family: High

Bradenton Beach — 1

Coquina Beach picnic area and shoreline at the southern tip of Anna Maria Island

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Coquina Beach

Bradenton Beach, FL

Coquina Beach occupies the southern tip of Anna Maria Island in Manatee County, just north of the Longboat Key bridge. The beachfront area where ghost sightings are most often reported now serves as a public picnic area, though a hotel once stood on the site. The hotel's name, construction date, and demolition are not currently documented in available historical sources.

$ All Ages Family: High

Captiva — 1

Haunted Hotel / Inn

South Seas

Captiva, FL

South Seas occupies 330 acres at the northern tip of Captiva Island in Lee County, Florida. The site was originally a Calusa village, then a Key Lime plantation owned by the Carver family from 1900 to about 1923. The property was developed into a resort under Mr. Chadwick beginning in 1923 and has operated under several names. Hurricane Ian devastated the resort in 2022; it reopened in May 2025.

$$$$ All Ages Family: High

Cassadaga — 1

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Cassadaga Hotel

Cassadaga, FL

The Cassadaga Hotel anchors the Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp, founded in 1894 by New York medium George Colby. Built in 1927 after fire destroyed the original 1901 wooden hotel on Christmas Eve 1926, the property remains the most prominent commercial address in what residents call the Psychic Capital of the World.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Chumuckla — 1

Brick wall surrounding Coon Hill Cemetery in rural Santa Rosa County, Florida

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Coon Hill Cemetery

Chumuckla, FL

Coon Hill Cemetery near Chumuckla, Florida dates to 1820, making it the oldest cemetery in northern Santa Rosa County. The walled pioneer burial ground sits at the end of a dirt road in a remote, wooded area, and has been the focus of recent restoration efforts by the Jay Historical Society after extensive vandalism.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Crestview — 1

Exterior of the former Jameson Inn, now operating as a Quality Inn, in Crestview, Florida

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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Jameson Inn (now Quality Inn / Best Western), Crestview

Crestview, FL

Built in 2000 as a Jameson Inn off Interstate 10 in Crestview, Florida, the hotel at 151 Cracker Barrel Drive has cycled through franchise affiliations including Quality Inn under Choice Hotels and a reported Best Western flag, with current operations under the Quality Inn brand.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Daytona Beach — 1

Aging headstones at Pinewood Historic Cemetery, the oldest beachside cemetery in Daytona Beach

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Pinewood Historic Cemetery

Daytona Beach, FL

Pinewood Historic Cemetery, also called Peninsula Cemetery, is the oldest cemetery on the beachside of Daytona Beach, Florida. The land traces to a purchase in the 1870s and the first documented burials in the 1880s, and it holds the graves of more than 1,700 people including many of the town's prominent early citizens. A nonprofit corporation now leads its preservation.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Eustis — 1

Theater / Performance Venue

State Theatre of Eustis

Eustis, FL

The State Theatre of Eustis opened in 1922 as a vaudeville house, featuring a curved balcony-mezzanine, fly loft, and orchestra pit. After years of vacancy, Bay Street Players revived it in 1974-1975 as a nonprofit community theater. A $200,000 renovation in 1985 updated the facility with new lighting, seats, and stage equipment. The theater has since launched the careers of performers including actress Sabrina Lloyd and concert pianist Tzimon Barto.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Freeport — 1

Black Creek Cemetery entrance, Freeport, Florida

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Black Creek Cemetery

Freeport, FL

Black Creek Cemetery occupies land that has served as a burial ground since the 1800s in Walton County, Florida. Adjacent to the cemetery stood a church constructed in the 19th century, serving the local community until its demolition. The town of Freeport was settled by 1830 and has deep roots in North Florida and early American history. When a new church replaced the original structure, the historic bell tower was disassembled and relocated out of state.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Hollywood — 1

Hollywood Beach Hotel Mediterranean Revival facade on North Ocean Drive in Hollywood, Florida

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hollywood Beach Resort

Hollywood, FL

The Hollywood Beach Hotel opened in 1925 as a seven-story Mediterranean Revival landmark built by Joseph Young, founder of Hollywood-by-the-Sea. It featured 500 rooms with private baths and was rumored to be a favorite Florida hideout of Al Capone.

$ All Ages Family: High

Jensen Beach — 1

Museum / Historical Site

The Mansion at Tuckahoe (Leach Mansion)

Jensen Beach, FL

The Mansion at Tuckahoe, also known historically as the Leach Mansion, is a 1938 Mediterranean Revival estate built on the Indian River Lagoon in Jensen Beach, Florida for industrialist Willaford Leach and Coca-Cola heiress Anne Bates Leach. The mansion later served as a convent, college, and university campus before Martin County purchased it in 1997 and reopened it as a public event venue and historic site.

$ All Ages Family: High

Kissimmee — 1

Weathered 19th-century headstones at the historic Shingle Creek Cemetery near Kissimmee, Florida

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Shingle Creek Cemetery

Kissimmee, FL

Shingle Creek Cemetery sits behind the former Shingle Creek Methodist Church about five miles west of Kissimmee in Osceola County. The congregation and burial ground were established around 1865 by early settlers, including Henry Overstreet, who donated land for the church and cemetery. It remains one of the oldest pioneer cemeteries in the Kissimmee area and holds the graves of Confederate veterans and founding families of the Shingle Creek community.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Lake Helen — 1

The red-brick Devil's Chair mourning bench at Lake Helen-Cassadaga Cemetery

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Lake Helen-Cassadaga Cemetery

Lake Helen, FL

The Lake Helen-Cassadaga Cemetery in Volusia County, Florida serves the adjacent Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp, founded in 1895 by George Colby. The cemetery contains the original spiritualists' graves and the Devil's Chair, a 1920s red-brick mourning bench that has become the centerpiece of local folklore.

$ All Ages Family: High

Longboat Key — 1

The Chart House restaurant on Longboat Key, Florida, site of John Ringling's unfinished 'Ghost Hotel' Ritz-Carlton

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Haunted Dining / Bar

The Ghost Hotel (Former Ringling Ritz-Carlton) — Chart House Site

Longboat Key, FL

In March 1926 circus magnate John Ringling began building a 350-room Ritz-Carlton hotel on the south end of Longboat Key as part of his Sarasota development empire. When the Florida land boom collapsed later that year, he halted construction in November 1926 with the exterior nearly complete. The shell stood vacant for more than three decades — earning the nickname 'the Ghost Hotel' — before it was finally demolished in 1964. The Chart House restaurant and the Longboat Key Club now occupy the site.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Longwood — 1

Exterior of the 1885 three-story frame Longwood Hotel in the Longwood Historic District, Longwood, Florida — listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Haunted House / Historic Home

The Old Longwood Hotel

Longwood, FL

Longwood founder Edward Warren Henck built the three-story Longwood Hotel in 1885 to attract attention to his new railroad town. The building changed names through the early 20th century, served as the Orange and Black during the 1920s, and now operates as private office space. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

$ All Ages Family: High

Maitland — 1

Enzian Theater, a single-screen arthouse cinema in Maitland, Florida

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Theater / Performance Venue

Enzian Theater

Maitland, FL

The Enzian Theater is a single-screen nonprofit arthouse cinema in Maitland, Florida, founded in 1985 by Tina Tiedtke and her father John Tiedtke. The theater is the home of the Florida Film Festival, which has run since 1992, and programs first-run independent films year-round.

$$ Varies by film Family: High

Marco Island — 1

Victorian-era exterior of the Olde Marco Island Inn at 100 Palm Street, Marco Island, Florida

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Olde Marco Island Inn & Suites

Marco Island, FL

The Olde Marco Island Inn was built in 1883 by Captain William 'Bill' Collier on Marco Island, Florida, and is one of the oldest surviving structures on the island. The inn portion ceased regular lodging operations in 1954, but in 1999 two new suite towers were added to the property. The original building today functions as the lobby and dining room.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Merritt Island — 1

Oak-shaded graves at Georgiana Cemetery on Merritt Island, Florida

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Georgiana Cemetery

Merritt Island, FL

Georgiana Cemetery is one of the oldest graveyards in Brevard County, Florida, associated with the now-vanished pioneer settlement of Georgiana on Merritt Island. The adjacent Georgianna United Methodist Church was built in 1886, with lumber floated up by sailboat from St. Augustine. The cemetery holds Civil War and World War veterans alongside original settlers of the area.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Miami Springs — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Glenn H. Curtiss Mansion

Miami Springs, FL

The Glenn H. Curtiss Mansion is a 1925 Pueblo Revival residence at 500 Deer Run in Miami Springs, Florida, built for aviation pioneer Glenn Hammond Curtiss, who co-founded the cities of Hialeah, Opa-locka, and Miami Springs. After Curtiss's 1930 death the house passed through several owners, suffered three arson fires, and was reduced to a roofless shell before a public/private restoration reopened it to the public in 2012.

$ All Ages Family: High

Micanopy — 1

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Herlong Mansion

Micanopy, FL

The Herlong Mansion in Micanopy, Florida originated as a Simonton family farmhouse around 1845 and was remodeled into a Greek Revival residence by 1910 after Natalie Simonton married Zetty Herlong. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and operates today as a bed-and-breakfast.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Montverde — 1

Magnolia Creek Lane near Lake Apopka in Lake County, Florida — a narrow single-lane road running on an old railroad bed

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Magnolia Creek Lane

Montverde, FL

Magnolia Creek Lane is a single-lane road on the west side of Lake Apopka in Lake County, Florida. The road appears to follow the route of a former railroad bed. Researchers investigating the local legend found no historical evidence of a train wreck occurring at or near this road, and noted that any railroad through the area would likely have been a freight rather than passenger line.

$ All Ages Family: High

Nokomis — 1

Haunted Dining / Bar

Pelican Alley Restaurant

Nokomis, FL

The building at 1009 Albee Road West was constructed in 1903 as a commercial fish house serving the waterfront trade on Little Sarasota Bay. It has operated under various owners across more than a century, becoming Pelican Alley Restaurant under Robert Arbuckle's ownership in the latter twentieth century. The original structure remains intact and forms the core of the current dining operation.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Ocala — 1

Mission-style facade of the Ritz Historical Inn at 1205 East Silver Springs Blvd in Ocala, Florida

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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Ritz Historical Inn

Ocala, FL

The Ritz Apartment was constructed in 1925 by Bert Acker and Ocala judge Simeon Sistrunk in Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival style, designed by architect Frederick T. Uezzell. Originally the Ritz-Acker Apartments with 16 units, it was expanded during WWII and added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 21, 1986. Volunteers of America Florida took over the building around 2010 to provide housing for homeless veterans.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Palm Beach — 1

Beaux-Arts facade of Whitehall, the Flagler Museum mansion in Palm Beach, Florida

Museum / Historical Site

Flagler Mansion

Palm Beach, FL

Whitehall, the 75-room Beaux-Arts mansion completed in 1902, was Henry Flagler's wedding gift to his third wife, Mary Lily Kenan. The Standard Oil co-founder used the estate as his Florida residence until his death in 1913 from a fall on the marble staircase. Whitehall has operated as the Flagler Museum since 1960 and is a National Historic Landmark.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Pensacola Beach — 1

Battlefield / Military Site

Fort Pickens

Pensacola Beach, FL

Fort Pickens is a pentagonal brick coastal fort completed in 1834 on the western end of Santa Rosa Island, guarding the entrance to Pensacola Bay. It was one of the few Southern forts to remain in Union hands throughout the Civil War. From October 1886 to May 1887 it served as the prison for Apache leader Geronimo and sixteen of his warriors. The fort is administered today by the National Park Service as part of Gulf Islands National Seashore.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Rockledge — 1

Haunted Dining / Bar

Ashley's of Rockledge

Rockledge, FL

Ashley's of Rockledge opened in 1933 as Jack's Tavern and cycled through several names — Cooney's Tavern, the Mad Duchess, Gentleman Jim's — before becoming Ashley's Restaurant in 1985. The Tudor-style building features original stained-glass windows and antique photographs. The structure sits adjacent to the Indian River on US 1 in Rockledge, Brevard County.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Safety Harbor — 1

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Safety Harbor Resort & Spa

Safety Harbor, FL

The Safety Harbor Resort & Spa sits on the western shore of Tampa Bay above the natural Espiritu Santo Springs. Captain James F. Tucker built a sanatorium on the site in 1920, which Dr. Salem Baranoff expanded in the mid-twentieth century into a renowned mineral-springs spa. The property is a member of Historic Hotels of America.

$$$$ All Ages Family: High

Saint Cloud — 1

Mediterranean Revival hotel with stucco walls, red tile roof, and arched windows in downtown St. Cloud, Florida

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hunter Arms Hotel

Saint Cloud, FL

The Hunter Arms Hotel opened in 1927 in St. Cloud, Florida, designed in Mediterranean Revival style by Ohio architect Harlan Jones for Ohio mausoleum builder Grover C. Hunter. The hotel originally operated as a winter-only resort with seasonal flat rates that included room and meals.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Sarasota — 1

Keating Hall at Ringling College of Art and Design, the former Bay Haven Hotel built in 1925

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Haunted House / Historic Home

Ringling College of Art and Design — Keating Hall

Sarasota, FL

Keating Hall at Ringling College of Art and Design was originally the Bay Haven Hotel, built in 1925 by the Echols Construction Company in the Spanish Mission Revival style. The hotel deteriorated during the Florida land bust and became associated with gambling and prostitution before John Ringling purchased it around 1931 and incorporated it into his new art school as classrooms and a women's dormitory.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Spring Hill — 1

A typical Hungry Howie's Pizza storefront in a Spring Hill Florida strip mall

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Haunted Dining / Bar

Hungry Howie's Pizza (Former 7-Eleven Site)

Spring Hill, FL

The Shadowlands-era folklore describes a 1980s-era 7-Eleven location in Spring Hill, Florida, that was later converted to a Hungry Howie's pizzeria. The underlying murder described in the submission has not been confirmed through Hernando County news archives or Florida Department of Law Enforcement records in publicly searchable sources, and the specific operating Hungry Howie's location associated with the folklore is not uniquely identified.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

St. Pete Beach — 1

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Don CeSar

St. Pete Beach, FL

The Don CeSar opened January 16, 1928 on St. Pete Beach, Florida, built by real estate developer Thomas Rowe as a tribute to a Spanish woman named Lucinda he had loved and lost decades earlier. Named for Don Cesar de Bazan from the opera Maritana, the 277-room pink resort was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The U.S. Army purchased it in 1942 for use as a hospital; it was restored and reopened as a full resort in 1973 and underwent major renovations from 2018–2020, reopening after hurricane repairs in March 2025.

$$$$ All ages Family: High

Treasure Island — 1

John's Pass bridge crossing between Treasure Island and Madeira Beach Florida at sunset

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Outdoor / Natural Site

John's Pass Bridge

Treasure Island, FL

John's Pass is a natural tidal inlet between Treasure Island and Madeira Beach, created by a powerful hurricane in 1848. Named after Jean 'John' Levique, a sea turtle hunter and fisherman who discovered the pass after the storm, the inlet became a focal point for the fishing and boating communities that developed on the Pinellas barrier islands through the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The current bridge carries Gulf Boulevard (FL-699) across the pass.

$ All Ages Family: High

Umatilla — 1

A flat 19th century cemetery bordered by orange groves in Lake County, Florida, with weathered headstones and live oaks

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Umatilla Cemetery

Umatilla, FL

Umatilla Cemetery sits on Golden Gem Road in Lake County, Florida, with sections on both sides of the road. The older section dates to the 19th century and sits adjacent to orange groves; the newer section slopes toward a lake. The cemetery is owned by the City of Umatilla, which also owns four additional smaller cemeteries in the area.

$ All Ages Family: High

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