The tragic tale of the dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

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

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

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

Every Sunday for the last 30 years, this Buddhist temple has hosted a market with food and Thai goods.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

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

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

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

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

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

You’ll feel like you’ve gone through the looking glass at this contemporary art museum filled with glass sculptures of every size, shape, and color.

Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.

Deep in the Ocala National Forest, a lonesome 19th-century grave.

A small strip of artistic displays is tucked away in a flea market.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

It's believed Elvis Presley was inspired to write his breakthrough track after staying here.

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

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

A lone gunner's station is all that remains of a replica Spanish Fort in Florida.

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