Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

Journey through vintage Americana inside this small Massachusetts shop.

A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.

A railroad magnate's replica village has become home to a genetic seed bank for rare breeds of livestock.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.