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

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

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

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

The haunting remains of a failed housing development can still be found behind the big box stores that were to anchor them.

The culprit who accidentally lit this 3,500-year-old tree on fire stated "I can't believe I burned down a tree older than Jesus."

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

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

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

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

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

This eagle-topped spire remembers the military commander who snatched up California for the United States.