Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.

Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.

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

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

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

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

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

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

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

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

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

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the depths off Key Largo.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

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

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.