An isolated village literally built into the crevices and rock formations of a mountain.

Now a pile of ruins and rubble, this was a lovely mountain town as recently as 1960.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

For 32 years the famous Ringling Bros circus troupe spent winters in this sunny spot in Florida.

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

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

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

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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

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

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

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

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

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

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