Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

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

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

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

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

The country’s largest boat parade honors an infamous Spanish pirate—who never actually existed.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

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

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

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.