The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

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

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

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

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

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

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

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

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

A dam that moonlights as a gigantic, brutalist waterslide.

This Texas home and garden was the masterpiece of a British portrait painter.

A family of fiberglass giants.

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.

A few times a day, you can see an animatronic cowboy shoot-out.

An oasis of lilies cultivated by the "Indiana Jones of Water Lilies."

A symbol of Texas pride.

After 97 years of constant vigilance from the dome of the Texas State Capitol, the original Goddess of Liberty retired to a life of climate-controlled leisure.

This lake sits on an estimated 4 million tons of salt.