A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

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

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.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

This whimsical outsider art wall holds tiny treasures donated by the local community.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.