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Sulphur Springs Tower | Photo © 2023, www.abandonedfl.com

Sulphur Springs Water Tower

Sulphur Springs Hotel and Apartments Constructed in 1927 under the supervision of Grover Poole, the Sulphur Springs Water Tower found its origin as a creation of Grover Poole, serving the purpose of...

Galvin-Carl House | Photo © 2023, www.abandonedfl.com

Galvin-Carl House

The Galvin-Carl House is a historic home once owned by Daniel Joseph Galvin, a pioneer merchant and sawmill operator from Brandon, Florida. The community’s history dates back to January 20...

The Holy Land Experience | Photo © 2023, www.abandonedfl.com

The Holy Land Experience

The Holy Land Experience The Holy Land Experience was a Christian-based theme park in Orlando, Florida, and registered as a non-profit corporation. Weekly church services and bible studies...

Cypress Gardens | Photo © Nomeus, www.flurbex.com

Cypress Gardens

Cypress Gardens Cypress Gardens opened on January 2, 1936, as a botanical garden planted by Dick Pope Sr. and his wife Julie, billed as Florida’s first commercial tourist theme park. It became...

Disston Sugar Mill | Photo © 2021 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Disston Sugar Mill

Hamilton Disston, c.1870 Hamilton Disston was an industrialist and lesser-known figure in Florida’s history who purchased four million acres of Florida land in 1881. His land purchase and...

Kellogg Mansion | Photo © 2021 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Kellogg Mansion

Kellogg Mansion Edward Frischkorn Although the Kellogg Mansion is well known to have been owned by W. K. Kellogg, founder of the Kellogg Cereal Company, he was actually not the first owner nor would...

Stivender House | Photo by William Powell, 2020

Dr. Arthur Stivender House

Arthur A. Stivender Arthur Abrehart Stivender was born on June 8, 1842, in Barbour County, Alabama to Duncan Wright Stivender and Margaret Gillie Ann Lee. After her husband died in 1860, Margaret and...

Bin Laden Mansion | Photo © 2023, www.abandonedfl.com

Bin Laden Mansion

Bin Laden Mansion Pratt House This home in Oakland, Florida is commonly referred to as the Bin Laden Mansion due to its connection to Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11th attacks...

American Legion Building | Photo © 2018 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

American Legion Building

  The American Legion is a United States war veterans’ organization established in Paris, France, March 15, 1919, by a thousand officers and men, delegates from all the units of the American...

Ormond Beach Mansion | Photo © 2020 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

R. A. Jackson’s Ormond Beach Mansion

Ormond Beach Mansion Owners Richard A. Jackson, Attorney Located on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean in Ormond Beach, Florida, this Mediterranean-style, four-bedroom and four-bathroom mansion was...

Orlando Sun Resort | Photo © 2021 James Gilliland

Orlando Sun Resort

Inside the Orlando Sun Resort on Irlo Bronson Memorial Hwy. Photo courtesy of James Gilliland The Orlando Sun Resort and Convention Center first opened in 1972 as the Hyatt Orlando Resort. The resort...

William Camp House | Photo © 2020 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

William Camp House

William Nelson Camp Born September 17, 1847, William Nelson Camp was an innovator and a brilliant businessman having many timber interests in Virginia and even having built a hydroelectric power...

Brooksville Headless Brontosaurus | Photo © 2020 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Brooksville Headless Brontosaurus

Located in Brooksville, the unfinished sculpture of a brontosaurus was the work of August Herwede who lived in the house on the property behind the dinosaur. August was born September 21, 1886, and...

Surfside Hotel | Photo © 2011 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Surfside Hotel

Located in Daytona Beach, the Surfside Hotel was built in 1974 and owned by Bray & Gillespie Inc., a Daytona Beach real-estate company that at one time owned dozens of beachside hotels, including...

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Apollo Beach Mansion

Article Under Construction The mansion was built in 2002 and sold that same year, featuring 7 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, and a three-car garage. The owners of this mansion in Apollo Beach, Florida were...

Leeds Tunnel. Source: Flickr "jcw1967"

Ybor Tunnels

The Ybor City smuggling tunnels are perhaps one of the greatest urban legends in Tampa, miles of tunnels underneath the city are rumored to have been used during the prohibition era to move liquor...

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