Four entries, spread thinly down a long coast, and two of them are in St. Augustine, which has been selling its own history since the nineteenth century and is very good at it.
That is the theme of this region: the attraction and the marketing of the attraction are the same object, and have been for over a hundred years. A spring sold as the Fountain of Youth, complete with an archaeological site that is genuinely important underneath the sales pitch. The first Believe It or Not! Odditorium, opened in 1950 in a coquina castle that had been a private mansion and then a hotel where a fire killed two guests.
Further south, an oceanarium built so that filmmakers could shoot underwater, which became the biggest attraction in the state before Disney arrived, and a drive-through safari where the instruction is to keep your windows up. Distances here are long. Treat it as two trips rather than one.
