Susan Crockett stood in front of her one-story Palm Coast home, which now has a huge black hole where the four-seater plane went down Friday afternoon, killing all three people aboard.

CNN: Florida plane crash survivor: 'God is good'

They hired Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed Central Park, to create an open campus with no walls, vast gardens and thousands of palm and Coast Live Oak trees, and California mission-inspired sandstone buildings with red-tiled roofs.

NEWYORKER: Get Rich U.

Farther up the coast, Palm Beach continues to define stuffy Big Money.

FORBES: Southern Comforts

The toquilla straw hat is woven from fibres from a palm tree of the Ecuadorian coast.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

The Democratic base is centralized in the so-called "Gold Coast" communities of West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale (Broward County), Miami (Dade County), and in both Tallahassee and the minority communities of the panhandle.

CNN: GOP contenders fight for Florida

The most profitable pads: Los Angeles homes that look like East Coast houses, without pools or palm trees.

WSJ: Starring Your Den

This is the Golden Palm Tree Resort and Spa, a luxurious Maldivian-style, over-water villa complex, just off the coast of Selangor in Malaysia.

BBC: The Maldives meets Dubai, in Malaysia