Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

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

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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

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

This video store is a horror buff's dream.

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

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

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.

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

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

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

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.