The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

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

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

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

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

Since the 1930s, this Pennsylvania town has celebrated the humble tomato.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

Pennsylvania’s creepiest roadside attraction is a haunting example of roadside kitsch.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

An approximately 500 million-year-old rock outcropping covered in fossilized bacteria.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.

The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

Two gushing waterfalls of hot spring water within a block of each other.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.