These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

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

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

The story of a Floridian city as told through an obscure sport for retirees.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

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

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

A seemingly inexplicable memorial honors a beloved Tampa fruit-seller.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

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

This funky outdoor gallery in Florida is filled with whimsical recycled art installations.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.