Edward Leedskalnin, a reclusive Latvian immigrant and self-taught engineer, built Florida’s Coral Castle entirely by hand between 1923 and 1951, moving and carving over 1,100 tons of coral rock—some blocks weighing as much as 30 tons—using only homemade tools and no modern machinery. Standing barely five feet tall and weighing just 100 pounds, he worked alone at night, claiming to have unlocked the ancient secrets of magnetism and levitation once known to the Egyptians. The structure includes ma