Architectural Oddities in Florida

Measuring approximately 200 feet long, Swampy is the world's largest alligator-shaped building.

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

These simple structures are living monuments to the fishermen who built this community over a century ago.

Though it may look like it’s missing its outer shell, this skeletal cast-iron tower was built to withstand wind and waves.

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

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

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

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

Florida’s half-sized replica of the Vietnam Veterans Wall.

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

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

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.