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

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

This forgotten chalk mine was reopened thanks to a massive effort from the local community.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

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

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

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

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

An underwater city for the dead.

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

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.