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

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

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

This 15-foot former Johnny Appleseed has given up his apples for donuts and coffee.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

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

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

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

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

How Quincy, Florida became the richest town per capita due to one man's shrewd business acumen and taste for fizzy drinks.

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

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

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

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

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

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

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

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

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.