Local Attractions
- The Shrine of Ste Anne des Lacs
- Bok Tower Gardens
- Chalet Suzanne
- Spook Hill, an optical illusion which makes a car in neutral appear as if it is traveling uphill (gravity hill)
- The commercial historic district in the heart of the old town contains important examples of architecture from the period of the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The district's tallest building, the Hotel Grand, is boarded up and at risk of demolition.
- Grove House, the visitor's center for the agricultural cooperative Florida's Natural (located across from the company's processing plant).
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