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

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

Tucked away in the forests of North Florida resides a 19th-century lighthouse.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

This twisty sign depicts the chain's first logo.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

The evolution of recreational vehicles and motorhomes is on display in the “RV capital of the world."

A one-stop shop for all things snowmobile, started by a snowmobile-obsessed group of friends in Wisconsin.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

People escaping slavery passed through the oldest house in Lombard, Illinois on their northbound journey to freedom.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

Burial mounds of prehistoric Native Americans who lived along the DuPage River.

Tucked away amongst townhomes lies a restored, early 20th-century tea house and garden, the only remains of a historic estate.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.