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This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

Step into the past and experience what life was once like in the Sunshine State.

Built in 1927, this pink stucco hotel once hosted stars of Hollywood’s silent movie era. Now it's being brought back to life.

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

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

The sign that drew attention to a young boy's cucumber stand is now the name of his fruit superstore.

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

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

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

North Central Florida's largest flea market and a weekend roadtripper's dream.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

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.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.