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

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

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

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.