This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

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.

The only known working replica of the world's first self-propelled vehicle.

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

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

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

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.