Miami, Florida
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.
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Miami, Florida
Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.
Key Biscayne, Florida
A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.
Coral Gables, Florida
This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.
Homestead, Florida
A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.
Islamorada, Florida
This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.
Big Pine Key, Florida
Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.
Summerland Key, Florida
Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.
Key West, Florida
Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.
Key West, Florida
The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.
Key West, Florida
An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Key West, Florida
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
Key West, Florida
"We Seceded Where Others Failed."
Asheville, North Carolina
This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.
Gaffney, South Carolina
The record holder for the world’s largest peach.
Wilson, North Carolina
A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.
Durham, North Carolina
This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.
Pittsboro, North Carolina
A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.
North Charleston, South Carolina
This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.
Hamer, South Carolina
I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.
Pawleys Island, South Carolina
Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.
Lincoln, Illinois
The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.