Built in 1927, this pink stucco hotel once hosted stars of Hollywood’s silent movie era. Now it's being brought back to life.

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

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

Recycled junk and fishing buoys litter the yard and facade of this bait shop cum art project.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

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.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

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

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

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

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

A creative deviation in this post office's design was once a source of controversy.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.