A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

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

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

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

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

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

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

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

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

A gigantic 10-foot tall stone man.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

This local landmark is home to art galleries and the area's only community darkroom.

An allegedly haunted testament to a local businessman's desire for status, posterity, and charity.

A gazebo that inspired the fifth episode of the "Twilight Zone" still stands in the creator's hometown

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

This impressive castle looms over small German town.

This famed marionette theater and museum is bursting with imaginative string puppets.

According to legend a man pooped out the window of this tower to prove that it was straight.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

Legend says this sculpture commemorates a brave baker who rescued the city in the Thirty Years' War.

The highest point of this Balearic island is home to a historic monastery.