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An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

An oddity shop inspired by the history of the circus.

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

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

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

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

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

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

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

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

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

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.