The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

This 1920s railway depot is now home to two unique museums complete with a miniature train ride.

An aviation relic that made coast-to-coast travel possible.

The only known working replica of the world's first self-propelled vehicle.

The bizarre story of the mysterious death and hidden treasure of one of Sanibel Island's early homesteaders.

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

This whimsical outsider art wall holds tiny treasures donated by the local community.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

A sculpture of 18 beautiful clay mandalas on display at Warm Mineral Springs in Florida sends a message of world peace.

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

A lone gunner's station is all that remains of a replica Spanish Fort in Florida.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

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

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

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

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.