The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

This video store is a horror buff's dream.

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

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

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

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

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

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

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

You’ll feel like you’ve gone through the looking glass at this contemporary art museum filled with glass sculptures of every size, shape, and color.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

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

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

In memory of the 110 victims of ValuJet Flight 592 that crashed in the Everglades.

This small museum concentrates on the juicy history of orange production in Florida.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.