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These large-scale reproductions of Mario Sanchez’s colorful pictures and murals feel like a walk around a small movie set, and also lead you down an imaginary “street” of past decades.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

The smallest walk-in museum in the United States, this miniature museum preserves and displays a range of historic manuscripts.

The United States' only educational center specializing in disease vectors and mosquitoes.

These ruins are all that remain of what a Spanish barrack that likely housed a quarry overseer, masons, and stone cutters involved in the construction of the Castillo de San Marco.

Built around 1723, this is the oldest surviving home in the U.S.'s oldest colonial city.

One of the oldest, tallest, and most haunted lighthouses in America.

Built to replace a house destroyed by a hurricane, this home is made entirely of shipping containers.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

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

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

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

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

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

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

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

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