Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

Pay homage to a mysterious feline artifact outside of this Florida museum.

Decorative shell walls built in the 1940s sit atop an ancient midden created by the Calusa Native Americans.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

A memorial to a 19th-century fishing disaster that had deep repercussions across Shetland.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

An underwater city for the dead.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

A failed, un-built suburb that has been going feral for decades.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

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

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

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.