Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

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

The world's 2nd or 3rd or 4th busiest seaplane base.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.