A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

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.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Once a thriving business district, this former shopping area is now an urban ghost town in the heart of the city.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

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

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

During its heyday, 72 one-ton buckets from this dredge bore into the Powder River excavating vast gold deposits.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This roadside dinosaur park offered up lumpy neon thunder lizards in the name of kitsch and education.