Step into the past and experience what life was once like in the Sunshine State.

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

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

An author's private collection of quirky travel-trinkets and oddities has become a rotating mini-museum in the window of a local bookstore.

Though it may look like it’s missing its outer shell, this skeletal cast-iron tower was built to withstand wind and waves.

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

An abandoned Victorian house transformed into a museum and store filled with taxidermy and vintage goods.

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

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

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

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

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

A lone gunner's station is all that remains of a replica Spanish Fort in Florida.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

The final resting place and once home of the Bandit Queen of the West.

The mortal remains of a Russian prince, priest and paranormal investigator who came to America in 1792.