This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

This aluminum airplane pays homage to the Flying Tigers of World War II.

Oldest and rarest examples of telecommunication in the world.

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

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

The ruins of a once massive plantation are now a private residence hidden in the Florida wilderness.

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

The haunting remains of a failed housing development can still be found behind the big box stores that were to anchor them.

A nude beach alongside a washed-out road.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

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

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

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

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

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

The scuba diving training facility was named for the steam that rises from the cave's chimney.

Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.