About 30 minutes west of present-day Daytona, the park area (named, of course, after Ponce de Leon) offers swimming in the 72F spring, a wildlife refuge and a sugar-mill-turned-restaurant where you can make your own pancakes.

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The street names of Spring Gardens (near Trafalgar Square) and Millbank (where the Abbey's mill once stood) echo Westminster's watery past.

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