Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

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

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

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

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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

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

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

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

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

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

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.