One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

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

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

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

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

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

A time capsule of Floridian history fights to survive on the banks of Chokoloskee Bay.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

This roadside dinosaur park offered up lumpy neon thunder lizards in the name of kitsch and education.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.