A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

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

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

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

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

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

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

Ruins of an old sugar mill sitting quietly next to a park in rural Florida.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

The world's longest known cave system.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.