For 32 years the famous Ringling Bros circus troupe spent winters in this sunny spot in Florida.

This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

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

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions.

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

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

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

A building so large that it has its own weather.

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

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.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

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

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

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

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

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

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

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

This university transit system is a 1970's vision of the future.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.