A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

Built in just a little over a week this preserved bunker was created to protect our most attractive POTUS while he was on vacation.

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

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

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

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

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

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

An unsolved murder victim's grave which may or may not contain her body.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.