Every January 6, young men dive into Spring Bayou in search of a cross and a year's worth of maritime blessings.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

At Bern's Steak House, there's always room for dessert—it's just upstairs.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

The country’s largest boat parade honors an infamous Spanish pirate—who never actually existed.

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

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

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

A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.

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

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

This century-old bakery produces 18,000 loaves of traditional Cuban bread every day.

This funky outdoor gallery in Florida is filled with whimsical recycled art installations.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

A tiny slice shop hides down an unmarked hallway in a Las Vegas casino.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.