Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.

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

With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

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

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

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

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

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

The scuba diving training facility was named for the steam that rises from the cave's chimney.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

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

An underwater city for the dead.

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

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

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

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.