This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

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

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

Colorful curls of hand-blown glass form a captivating tower in San Antonio's Central Library.

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.