This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

Dedicated to the victims of one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the United States in recorded history.

This small beachside park commemorates the possibilities of discovery.

The ruins of an open-air theater built on this Georgia island in the 1970s.

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

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest as he attempted to have lunch.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

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

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.