These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

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.

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

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

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

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

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

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

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

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.