South America's oldest surviving locomotive.

This museum covers 10,000 years of Pre-Columbian Latin American history.

A brilliant turquoise lake in the mountains.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

The fight to make Bengali an official language started in this stunning university hall.

Two giant painted cooling towers make for one of the world’s most epic bungee jumps.

A supply store for traditional healers, this shop sells the hair of a dog--and its skin, skeleton, and reproductive organs, too.

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

Off the Florida coast, a whimsical world of marine sculptures are revitalizing coral reefs.

These large-scale reproductions of Mario Sanchez’s colorful pictures and murals feel like a walk around a small movie set, and also lead you down an imaginary “street” of past decades.

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

This isolated airport in the middle of the Everglades sees more alligators than planes.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.

This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

An oddity shop inspired by the history of the circus.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

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

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.