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The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.

Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.

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

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

What started as three small gnomes at the base of a tree has grown into a full-blown gnome home.

These ruins are all that remain of what a Spanish barrack that likely housed a quarry overseer, masons, and stone cutters involved in the construction of the Castillo de San Marco.

The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest as he attempted to have lunch.

From printing money to live music, this Beaux-Arts style building has had many identities over the last century.

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

No one knows how or why this painting appeared to produce crystallized tears.

Pay homage to a mysterious feline artifact outside of this Florida museum.

This sidewalk monument honors more than 50 civil rights activists who helped change the face of America.

Built to replace a house destroyed by a hurricane, this home is made entirely of shipping containers.

The graves in Florida's oldest Black cemeteries are marked with shells, stones, and mementos of the deceased.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

World's largest magnetic research facility.

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

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

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

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

This historic headstone is said to mark the final resting place of a doubly-dead white witch.