This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

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

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

"No writer ever gave more to a city and got back less.”

A strange rock in Chicago marks the spot where a tree once stood in honor of the 18th President.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.