Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

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

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

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

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

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

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

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

An alchemist's "magic door" stands in the middle of a Roman park.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

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

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.