A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

Birds with backpacks expedite film development for a rafting company on a remote Colorado river.

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

This shrine to the patron saint of Alaska sits on a small tidal island and was built from the land’s own beach stones.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

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

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

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

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

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

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

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

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

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.