A gaudy painted elephant stands in memory of south Florida's fallen carnies.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

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

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

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

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

The oldest house of worship in Palm Beach has a wonderful tropical garden.

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, a marker honors the creation story of a proud fictional culture.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

A curiosity-seeker's paradise set inside a three-story historic school house.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.