This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

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

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

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.

A peculiar forest that was handcrafted for government experiments.

The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.

The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

One of just a few cities in the world to base their center of government on an island. Others: Paris and Osaka.