An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

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.

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

Would you like a sleeper hold with that?

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

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

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.

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

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

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