Houston, Texas
Smither Park
A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.
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Houston, Texas
A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.
Royse City, Texas
This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.
Lakeland, Florida
A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Titusville, Florida
A building so large that it has its own weather.
Jekyll Island, Georgia
Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.
Big Pine Key, Florida
Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.
Celebration, Florida
Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.
Tampa, Florida
A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.
Tampa, Florida
The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.
Key West, Florida
These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.
Key West, Florida
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
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
An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.
Key West, Florida
The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.
Key West, Florida
Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.
St. Augustine, Florida
In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.
St. Augustine, Florida
The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.
Ormond Beach, Florida
The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.
Flagler Beach, Florida
The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.
Ormond Beach, Florida
A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.
Valentine, Texas
A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.
Saint Simons Island, Georgia
The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.