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

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

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

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

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

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

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

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

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

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

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

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

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

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

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

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

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

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

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

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

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