A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

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

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

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

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.