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

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

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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

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

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

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

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

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.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

Try maple leaf tempura at the trailside shop that brought it back from oblivion.

A memorial to the man who brought Western medicine to Japan.