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Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

Though it may look like it’s missing its outer shell, this skeletal cast-iron tower was built to withstand wind and waves.

This massive vault of comedic history is no joke.

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

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

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

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

A lone gunner's station is all that remains of a replica Spanish Fort in Florida.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

For 32 years the famous Ringling Bros circus troupe spent winters in this sunny spot in Florida.

A historic landmark and museum filled with curious objects representing the history of Key West.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

Dedicated to the victims of one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the United States in recorded history.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.