Captiva, Florida
The Bubble Room
This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.
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Captiva, Florida
This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.
Key West, Florida
Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.
Jacksonville, Florida
This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.
St. Augustine, Florida
Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”
Winter Park, Florida
Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.
Key West, Florida
Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
St. Petersburg, Florida
A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.
Lake Wales, Florida
A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.
Weeki Wachee, Florida
Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.
Williston, Florida
This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.
Lake Wales, Florida
Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.
Ormond Beach, Florida
Faded remnants of the entrance to a Mediterranean-style resort that never fully came to life.
Houston, Texas
The only airport with a people mover system designed by Walt Disney Imagineering.
Anaheim, California
Inspiration struck on this seat outside the Griffith Park merry-go-round.
Anaheim, California
Allegedly haunted by Walt Disney himself, this inconspicuous lamp is always kept lit in his honor.
Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
Kansas City, Missouri
This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.
Kansas City, Missouri
This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.
Kansas City, Missouri
The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.
Kansas City, Missouri
This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.
Kansas City, Missouri
Soak in the soul of Kansas City at the oldest continually-operating jazz club in the country.
Grand Isle, Louisiana
Pirates had to be ousted from the land where this now ruined Louisiana fortress was built.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.