Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

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

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

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

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

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

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

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

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

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

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

The story of a Floridian city as told through an obscure sport for retirees.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."