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Interact with jury-selected works of art at this Gulf Coast underwater museum.

Once the primary source of ice in this region during the mid-20th century.

Play over 120 retro arcade games and pinball machines at this throwback museum.

This liminal destination combines creaky carnival rides, a classic car museum, and luck-of-the-draw flea market finds surrounded by dust and drive-in movie screens.

If you don't look closely, you might mistake this sculpture for just another passenger waiting at the airport.

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

In this Florida couple's cottage, nearly every surface—inside and out—is covered in mosaic artwork.

An unusual college football tradition involves burying pieces of sod from competitors' turf, replete with tiny coffins and headstones.

Ruins of an old sugar mill sitting quietly next to a park in rural Florida.

Opened in 1976, this monster-sized version of the fast-food franchise is sometimes called the Epic McD.

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

If you ever wanted to own an actual piece of Disney World, this is the place to shop.

A creative deviation in this post office's design was once a source of controversy.

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.

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

A historic landmark and museum filled with curious objects representing the history of Key West.

This salad has two key ingredients: hearts of palm and green ice cream.

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

In this small strip mall resides the largest collection of original art from the famed TV artist.

This whimsical outsider art wall holds tiny treasures donated by the local community.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

For 32 years the famous Ringling Bros circus troupe spent winters in this sunny spot in Florida.

This historical art colony is adorned with thousands of hand-carved concrete sculptures in the Mayan Revival style.

An abandoned Victorian house transformed into a museum and store filled with taxidermy and vintage goods.