The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

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

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

An underwater city for the dead.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

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

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

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

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.