Shuffleboard: Florida’s Favorite Old-Time Pastime
Nothing says old Florida quite like shuffleboard, and St. Petersburg is its world capital, home to the oldest and largest shuffleboard club on Earth.
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Fort De Soto: The Island Fort That Became America’s Best Beach
A Spanish-American War fort on a barrier island south of St. Petersburg, Fort De Soto guards some of the best beaches in America, plus miles of trails, a paddling trail, and old mortar batteries you can still climb.
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The Dali Museum: The Surrealist Masterpiece Collection on the St. Petersburg Waterfront
The Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg holds the largest collection of Dali’s work outside Spain, housed in a hurricane-proof building with a massive free-form glass structure that looks like something the artist dreamed up himself.
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Sunken Gardens: The Tropical Paradise Inside a St. Pete Sinkhole
In 1903, a plumber drained a sinkhole behind his house and started planting. Over a century later, Sunken Gardens is still one of St. Petersburg’s most beautiful surprises.
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Tony Jannus: The Pilot Who Launched Commercial Aviation from Tampa Bay
On New Year’s Day 1914, a 24-year-old pilot flew one passenger across Tampa Bay in 23 minutes. It was the world’s first scheduled commercial airline flight. He’d be dead three years later.
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Cocoon: The Sci-Fi Classic That Turned St. Petersburg Into a Fountain of Youth
Ron Howard spent 12 weeks filming a sci-fi classic about aliens and eternal youth entirely on location in St. Petersburg, Florida. Don Ameche won an Oscar, Wilford Brimley was only 49, and the pool scenes were shot at a private estate on Boca Ciega Bay.
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Doc Webb Built the World’s Most Unusual Drug Store in St. Petersburg
Doc Webb built the World’s Most Unusual Drug Store in St. Petersburg, a sprawling retail circus with live mermaids, a trained duck, and aisles that never seemed to end.
