A peaceful place in the woods where everything is a work in progress.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

This historic bridge has weathered fires and floods and still stands, now abandoned, where it has stood since 1874.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

Built following the War of 1812, this fort has withstood hurricanes for centuries.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the depths off Key Largo.

Decorative shell walls built in the 1940s sit atop an ancient midden created by the Calusa Native Americans.

The world's only underwater laboratory where "aquanauts" study oceanic life.

This small Key West museum is packed with dozens of artifacts that illustrate the life of the iconic playwright.

Along a rail-biking route, giant insects house a two-story restaurant.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

Medical history museum featuring a lovely doctor's office from the 1800s.

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

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

A time capsule of Floridian history fights to survive on the banks of Chokoloskee Bay.