The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

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

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

North Central Florida's largest flea market and a weekend roadtripper's dream.

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

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

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

This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

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

The story of a Floridian city as told through an obscure sport for retirees.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

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