Constructed between 1914 to 1923, the Vizcaya Museum & Gardens is the historic estate of James Deering located in Miami, Florida. With numerous Italian influences, the property was designed in the Mediterranean Revival style and surrounded by lush Italian Renaissance inspired gardens. This impressive estate is now a museum, gallery, and a recognized national historic landmark.
Each Christmas the Grand Floridian Resort in Walt Disney World in Florida constructs a giant gingerbread house (made out of real gingerbread) in the lobby of the hotel. Visitors can purchase a variety of gingerbread treats from the kiosk including gingerbread men and chocolate dipped gingerbread shingles - although in our experience, eating a giant gingerbread shingle kind of just tasted like eating a giant shingle. The gingerbread house itself is amazing though.
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| Eating one of the giant gingerbread shingles. |
With a number of new travel shoots across Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba this autumn, I inadvertently kept spotting abandoned houses and homesteads all over the prairies. These are just a few of the "haunted" highlights found on numerous backroads across the Canadian Prairies.
