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

No one knows how or why this painting appeared to produce crystallized tears.

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

A mega theme park-wax museum mélange containing all things biblical.

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

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

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.

The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.

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

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

In the loving memory of a tragically deceased role-player this Illinois park is decked out with both dungeons and dragons.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.