Museum of Florida History

Housed in a stark and off-putting modern building with no charm, the Museum of Florida History is filled with wonderful exhibits, tackling everything from Florida’s Paleo-Indians, who inhabited these parts beginning at the end of the Ice Age, to Civil War times, Spanish shipwrecks in the Atlantic and the rise of ‘Tin-Can Tourism,’ when the middle-class traveler began hitting Florida in droves – driving south, camping out and eating dinner out of tin cans. You’ll see a 1925 Model T, a 1911 Baker electric car, a reconstructed citrus packing house of the 1920s and the star attraction: a North American mastodon skeleton.