Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

VW heaven in the backwoods of Dade City, now gone.

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

Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

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

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

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

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

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.