During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

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.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

The story of a Floridian city as told through an obscure sport for retirees.

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

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

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

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

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.