Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.

Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.

In a time before lifeguards, this house was a sanctuary for the shipwrecked.

Get up close with some alligators at this roadside farm attraction.

It's believed Elvis Presley was inspired to write his breakthrough track after staying here.

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

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

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

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

A nude beach alongside a washed-out road.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

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

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.