A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

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

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

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

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

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

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

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

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

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

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

This vast, pristine wilderness is home to a rare subspecies of black bear.

The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.