The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.

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 seemingly inexplicable memorial honors a beloved Tampa fruit-seller.

This small museum concentrates on the juicy history of orange production in Florida.

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

The timeworn "Yankee Stadium" of the fastest game in the world isn't going anywhere.

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

Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.

This divisive system of turtle tunnels was built to save animals stranded after a highway split a lake in half.

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

An unusual college football tradition involves burying pieces of sod from competitors' turf, replete with tiny coffins and headstones.

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

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

This creative sculpture was a way to "recycle" an old tree.

Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

This sidewalk monument honors more than 50 civil rights activists who helped change the face of America.

Florida's first suspension bridge.

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

This isolated airport in the middle of the Everglades sees more alligators than planes.

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

Decorative shell walls built in the 1940s sit atop an ancient midden created by the Calusa Native Americans.