A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

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

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

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

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

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

A tribute to the furry local heroes who helped get residents through many tough times.

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

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

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

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

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

A self-explanatory attraction allows fans to respectfully remember and honor a comedy legend.

Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

Would you like a sleeper hold with that?

The haunting remains of a failed housing development can still be found behind the big box stores that were to anchor them.