Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

This video store is a horror buff's dream.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

How Quincy, Florida became the richest town per capita due to one man's shrewd business acumen and taste for fizzy drinks.

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

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.

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

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

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

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

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

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

This historic headstone is said to mark the final resting place of a doubly-dead white witch.

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

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

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