One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.

Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

Ruins of an old sugar mill sitting quietly next to a park in rural Florida.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.