Built alone for 28 years, the Coral Castle Museum is a feast for the eyes with a sculpture garden that engrave the mind carved from the huge rocks and legendary love story of the person who created it. Made from 1,100 tons of coral rocks, Coral Castle is one of Homestead's most unusual and enchanting attractions. At 1918 at the age of 31, the Latvian-born Edward Leedskalnin moved to Florida City to recover again in the warmth of South Florida. He had begun building his Coral Castle and spent three years painstakingly moving his thigh carvings, weighing about 125 pounds per cubic foot, to a place that would become their permanent home.
The technique of Coral Castle Leedskalnin veiled mystery. With a height of five feet, it weighs only 100 pounds and is believed to have worked with 1,100 tons of rocks without the help of modern mechanics or collaborators. The theories abound from the super natural to the pre-natural talents to the ancient sciences. Homestead's Coral Palace has been compared to the mysteries and achievements of monumental pyramids in Egypt, Stonehenge in England and the Taj Mahal in India. However, Leedskalnin came from a long line of stonework and he worked in a wooden camp in his home country, Latvia. It is believed that he was unanimous to build a monument to his lost love, Scuffs. Every time he was questioned about construction, he explained that he had a wide understanding of the laws of weights and leverage.
He completed the rock carvings in 1940 and then built the castle walls, which were eight feet tall, four-foot wide and three-foot thick, weighing more than 58 tons. Originally named Rock Gate Park, Leedskalnin toured the Coral Castle during the 1940 of the year with a very cheap price of 25 cents. In 1951, at the age of 64, Leedskalnin died at the Jackson Memorial Hospital, bequeathed his Monumental to a nephew in Michigan who eventually sells it to a family of Illinois. They transformed Leedskalnin into a museum, which was added to the National Historic Places list in 1984. Visiting Coral Castle today, visitors can explore the wonders of Leedskalnin's achievement. The Coral Castle is a timeless mystery for those who explore it.