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

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

These simple structures are living monuments to the fishermen who built this community over a century ago.

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

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

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

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

Follow the path behind this treat-slinging camper van to a sculpture garden in the forest.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

A replica of where the Last Supper was held.

A Christian-themed amusement park and complex rocked by scandals.

These cabins mark the site where our 11th president was born (probably).

This colonial cabin is the oldest building in High Point, built by one of the first settlers in the area.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

North Carolina's only restored fort from the French and Indian War.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.