This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

Of course the guy with the first patent for an ice machine lived in Florida.

This small museum concentrates on the juicy history of orange production in Florida.

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

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

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

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

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

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

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.