This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

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

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

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

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

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

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

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

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

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

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

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

A nude beach alongside a washed-out road.

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

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