The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

The remnants of a creative early method of wildfire prevention.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

Inside this small brick bungalow is a collection of toys intended for the afterlife.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

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

Recycled junk and fishing buoys litter the yard and facade of this bait shop cum art project.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

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

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

The haunting remains of a failed housing development can still be found behind the big box stores that were to anchor them.

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

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

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

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

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