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

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

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

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

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

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

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

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

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

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head as he died can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

This Manhattan skyscraper is a reminder of the brief but glorious age of urban air taxis.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.