Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

Owned by no one but beloved by all, Brownie was a good dog.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

A collection of pianos and more guaranteed to delight anyone interested in music history.

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

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

A land of debatable treasure.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

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

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.