A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

The final resting place of one of the brightest physicists of the 20th century.

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

A small-town limestone memorial to a local cartoonist and to Porky Pig, his most famous subject.

A seemingly inexplicable memorial honors a beloved Tampa fruit-seller.

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.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

The story of a Floridian city as told through an obscure sport for retirees.

This small museum concentrates on the juicy history of orange production in Florida.

You’ll feel like you’ve gone through the looking glass at this contemporary art museum filled with glass sculptures of every size, shape, and color.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

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

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

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

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

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

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

Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.