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

Recycled junk and fishing buoys litter the yard and facade of this bait shop cum art project.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

VW heaven in the backwoods of Dade City, now gone.

Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

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

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

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

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

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.