This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

VW heaven in the backwoods of Dade City, now gone.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

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

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

The world's only known button museum.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.