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

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

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

Every January 6, young men dive into Spring Bayou in search of a cross and a year's worth of maritime blessings.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

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

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

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

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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

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

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

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

A creative deviation in this post office's design was once a source of controversy.

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

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

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.