Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

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

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

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

It's believed Elvis Presley was inspired to write his breakthrough track after staying here.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

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

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

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

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

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

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.