The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

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

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

For 32 years the famous Ringling Bros circus troupe spent winters in this sunny spot in Florida.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

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

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.