This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

It's believed Elvis Presley was inspired to write his breakthrough track after staying here.

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

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

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

Working compound meant to allow visitors to reclaim the values and traditions of the past.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

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

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

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

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

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

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

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

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

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

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

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

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the depths off Key Largo.