Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

The ruins of a once massive plantation are now a private residence hidden in the Florida wilderness.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

A self-explanatory attraction allows fans to respectfully remember and honor a comedy legend.

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

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

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

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

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

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

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

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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