A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

It's believed Elvis Presley was inspired to write his breakthrough track after staying here.

A mega theme park-wax museum mélange containing all things biblical.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

Would you like a sleeper hold with that?

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

These simple structures are living monuments to the fishermen who built this community over a century ago.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Built in 1927, this pink stucco hotel once hosted stars of Hollywood’s silent movie era. Now it's being brought back to life.

The world's 2nd or 3rd or 4th busiest seaplane base.

This facility, now a museum, once housed and trained U.S. Army Air Force pilots who flew during the Allied invasion of Normandy.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

Every January 6, young men dive into Spring Bayou in search of a cross and a year's worth of maritime blessings.

No one knows how or why this painting appeared to produce crystallized tears.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

Recycled junk and fishing buoys litter the yard and facade of this bait shop cum art project.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.