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

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

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

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

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

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

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

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

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

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

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

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