Public works and national defense project meant to carve a canal all the way across the state of Florida.

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.

A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

More than a century after her death, Little Gracie Watson remains one of Savannah's most often-visited residents.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

Dubbed the "smallest church in America," this tiny sanctuary was a local grocer's dream come true.

North Central Florida's largest flea market and a weekend roadtripper's dream.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.

These ruins are all that remain of what a Spanish barrack that likely housed a quarry overseer, masons, and stone cutters involved in the construction of the Castillo de San Marco.

This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

This small beachside park commemorates the possibilities of discovery.