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The Unique Coral Castle, Florida
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I’ve seen a lot of strange places during my travels, and the Coral Castle — not far from Miami — certainly qualifies as strange. Still, in its own way, it is beautiful and tells the tale of a man’s desire to create something unique.
The Coral Castle was entirely constructed and carved by a single man, Edward Leedskalnin. Ed was an immigrant from Latvia who migrated to the USA almost a hundred years ago. A slight man, weighing only 100 pounds in a 5 foot tall frame, Ed was heart-broken. He loved a 16 year old girl in Latvia and was set to marry her when she rejected him a day before the wedding. Ed decided to emigrate to America …
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