Coral Castle

I visited the Coral Castle here in Homestead. If I knew admission was $28 I don't think I would have gone.

This place was build by a Latvian immigrant who was five feet four inches tall and he weighed 100 pounds. This was his bedroom up the stairs. All of his furniture (bed, chairs, dressers) was bolted to pulleys in the ceiling to make more room for him to work when he wasn't sleeping. He used only rudimentary tools such as pulleys and tripods. How did he manage to move 20 tons of coral rock with a pulley and chain designed to hold only 10 tons? No one knows. His name was Edward Leedskainin. They said he was a mathematical genius and probably on the Autism spectrum.

His tool shed was below his bedroom.

That hunk of metal in the middle there is a rear end differential for a car and served as his pressure cooker.

Edward's obelisk.

His depiction of the planets.

The entrance to his well for fresh water.

Edward craved having a wife and children but it never happened for him.