Though it may look like it’s missing its outer shell, this skeletal cast-iron tower was built to withstand wind and waves.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

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

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

An author's private collection of quirky travel-trinkets and oddities has become a rotating mini-museum in the window of a local bookstore.

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

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

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

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

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

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

This historical art colony is adorned with thousands of hand-carved concrete sculptures in the Mayan Revival style.

VW heaven in the backwoods of Dade City, now gone.

Step into the past and experience what life was once like in the Sunshine State.

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

This facility, now a museum, once housed and trained U.S. Army Air Force pilots who flew during the Allied invasion of Normandy.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions.

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

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

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

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

The world's largest private aircraft collection.