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

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.