• Coral Castle, Homestead: After the 16-year-old girl he fell in love with spurned him, a 5-foot-tall Latvian immigrant named Edward Leedskalnin spent 28 years creating a garden of massive coral blocks in the hope that his beloved would return to him. The blocks, each weighing six to 30 tons, were placed in unusual configurations, some atop each other, and some were carved in odd shapes such as a crescent moon. In an age when power tools and cranes were not available, Leedskainin excavated, carved and stacked all these o• Coral Castle, Homestead: After the 16-year-old girl he fell in love with spurned him, a 5-foot-tall Latvian immigrant named Edward Leedskalnin spent 20 years creating a garden of massive coral blocks in the hope that his beloved would return to him. The blocks, each weighing six to 30 tons, were placed in unusual configurations, some atop each other, and some were carved in odd shapes such as a crescent moon. In an age when power tools and cranes were not available, Leedskainin excavated, carved and stacked all these odd rock structures without help. To this day, no one knows how the Latvian, who weighed only 100 pounds, did it. Today his garden is an oft-visited tourist attraction.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 15:52:41 +0000