Miami, Florida
The Kampong
This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.
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Miami, Florida
This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.
Miami, Florida
Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.
Ona, Florida
Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.
Key Biscayne, Florida
An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.
Naples, Florida
A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.
North Port, Florida
This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.
Marco Island, Florida
An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.
St. Augustine, Florida
A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.
Delray Beach, Florida
Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.
Chiefland, Florida
A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.
Winter Park, Florida
Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.
Tulelake, California
Each winter this underground cave forms a dazzling ice palace.
Hacienda Heights, California
This mysterious and creepy location instills a strong sense of foreboding in all visitors.
Stevenson Ranch, California
This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.
Newberry Springs, California
The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.
Tehachapi, California
Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.
San Juan Capistrano, California
This park is home to well over 100 handmade birdhouses.
Oxnard, California
Abandoned in 2009, this once popular resort destination now stands frozen in time.
Portola Valley, California
The Internet Age began with a transmission from this biker bar.
Los Angeles, California
This vintage car parts store is also a museum devoted to a squat little gem of automotive history.
Yermo, California
Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.
Santa Barbara, California
Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.
Altadena, California
This magnificent mausoleum is as much a work of art as it is a historic resting place.
Ukiah, California
One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.