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

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.

From printing money to live music, this Beaux-Arts style building has had many identities over the last century.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

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

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

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

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

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

A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.

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

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

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

Recycled junk and fishing buoys litter the yard and facade of this bait shop cum art project.

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

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

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.