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

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

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

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

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

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The short-lived history of a new republic and British control in West Florida.

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

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.