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

An aviation relic that made coast-to-coast travel possible.

This whimsical outsider art wall holds tiny treasures donated by the local community.

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

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

The sign that drew attention to a young boy's cucumber stand is now the name of his fruit superstore.

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

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

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

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

This historic headstone is said to mark the final resting place of a doubly-dead white witch.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

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

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

The culprit who accidentally lit this 3,500-year-old tree on fire stated "I can't believe I burned down a tree older than Jesus."