20 Attractions to Explore Near New Smyrna Museum of History

The surrounding area of New Smyrna Beach offers a range of outdoor recreation opportunities, including fishing, sailing, motorboating, golfing, and hiking. Surfer magazine ranked it ninth on the list of "best surf towns."

The first lighthouse for what is now the Ponce de Leon Inlet was built on the south side of Mosquito Inlet in 1835.

The Volusia County Marine Science Center is a natural history and marine science museum. In addition to humpback whale skulls, the museum has a freshwater turtle rehabilitation area, a 5,000 gallon hexagonal artificial reef aquarium, and a stingray touch pool with cownose rays.

In the field of composing, visual, literary, and performing arts, the Atlantic Center for the Arts (ACA) is a nonprofit, interdisciplinary artists' community and arts education facility.

The city of Winter Haven is located in Polk County, Florida, United States. It is 51 miles east of Tampa.

In north-central Florida, the Dunlawton Plantation and Sugar Mill was a 19th-century cane sugar plantation. It was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places on August 28, 1973.

Seminole Rest is a historic site in Oak Hill, Florida. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 19, 1997.

There are four boundaries to the South Beach Street Historic District: Volusia Avenue, South Beach Street, South Street, and U.S. 1. It contains 154 historic buildings.

Museum of Arts and Sciences (Daytona Beach) It is one of the largest museums in central Florida, with over 30,000 objects on display.

433 South Palmetto Avenue, Daytona Beach, Florida, is the address of the Art League of Daytona Beach. It hosts exhibits and workshops by local artists.

Halifax Historical Museum displays local history dating back 5,000 years.

Founder of NASCAR William "Bill" France Sr. built the Daytona International Speedway track in 1959. It hosts the Daytona 500 every year.

There are more than 3,500 photographs in the Southeast Museum of Photography's permanent collection, including works by William Klein, Sally Mann, Harry Callahan, Gordon Parks, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Aaron Siskind and Robert Rauschenberg, among others.

Florida's Daytona Beach is historically known for its hard-packed sand beach, where motorized vehicles are allowed in some areas.

Mary McLeod Bethune Home is a historic house on the Bethune-Cookman University campus. Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) was a prominent African-American educator and civil rights activist who lived there.

The Daytona Lagoon is a family entertainment center and waterpark in Daytona Beach. There are 12 rides and an 18-hole miniature golf course at the park.

The LPGA International golf club features two 18-hole courses, Champions and Legends.

In Tiger Bay State Forest, there are large swamps with pine islands embedded in them and a large pine ridge area.

The Casements was the winter residence of American oil magnate John D. Rockefeller. Ormond Beach owns it and uses it as a cultural center and park.

The Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens honor veterans of World War I and World War II.