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The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

Conflicting markers on its floor tell a tale of two city centers in San Antonio.

The largest underground pedestrian tunnel system in the U.S. mostly caters to the people working in the offices above, but provides a great, air-conditioned way to traverse the city.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

Ancient church constructed with a special wood that preserves prints from the past.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

Georgia may have been on his mind, but this memorial in Florida shows that Greenville was really Ray Charles's childhood home.

This general store is stocked with memorabilia from the 1930s onward—almost none of it for sale.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

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

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

This salad has two key ingredients: hearts of palm and green ice cream.

Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.

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

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

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

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

In this Florida couple's cottage, nearly every surface—inside and out—is covered in mosaic artwork.

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

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.