Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

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

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

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

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.