Gainesville, Florida
University of Florida Bat Houses
The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.
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Orlando, Florida
Tupperware Confidence Center
A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.
Sarasota, Florida
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.
Tampa, Florida
Two-Headed Gator of Seminole Heights
"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.
Key Largo, Florida
Underwater Hotel in Key Largo
Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.
Key West, Florida
Key West High Heel Shoe Drop
Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.
Homosassa, Florida
Monkey Island of Homosassa
In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.
Safety Harbor, Florida
Whimzeyland
This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.
Lake Helen, Florida
Cassadaga
Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.
Beacon, New York
Ruins of the Mount Beacon Incline Railway
The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Doan Outlaw Graves
The final resting place of two members of the infamous Doan gang, notorious outlaws and Revolutionary War Loyalists.
Campbell, Ohio
Iron Soup
There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mount Moriah Cemetery
An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.
Wyalusing, Pennsylvania
French Azilum
A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.
Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania
Grave of Andy Warhol
The pop art icon's gravesite is broadcast 24 hours a day on his museum's website.
