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An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

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

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

HFH's slum simulation is either a noble recreation of poverty or a cringeworthy attempt at same.

An abandoned bait shop with a front lot filled with storage boxes.

This mysterious twin turboprop Grumman G-159 covered in graffiti has spent a decade and a half abandoned.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

A semi-retired nurse’s record-setting collection of 3,000 tiny chairs.

A historic gristmill that still produces flour and grits the old-fashioned way.

On land once deemed “valueless,” a multipurpose community garden proves the potential of urban farming.

The ruins of an open-air theater built on this Georgia island in the 1970s.

This pair of centuries-old magnolia trees was once struck by a Babe Ruth home run.

The largest Jewish museum in the southeastern U.S. houses a permanent Holocaust exhibit emphasizing the strength of its survivors.